Vocabulary

dead-weight tonnage

dead-weight tonnage

rapid (weapons) fire; hail of bullets

outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

long-cherished desire

precocity

from morning till night; day and night; always

destiny; fate; karma

hermit crab

lodging host; lodging place

long-cherished desire; one's heart's desire

festive dress

festivals; feasts

national holiday

benediction; blessing

salute of guns

reduced-size printing; printing in a compact format

(silk) crepe; crape

crepe paper

fine wrinkles

abridgment; abridgement; condensation

school purge

withering; blight

cleaning up (political party)

careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully

reading assigned to a kanji compound whose constituent characters are related to the word's meaning but not its pronunciation; kanji compound reading that has no correspondence to the readings of the constituent characters

mastery

being deliberate in council, and decisive in action

periodical relief or replacement of workers

grounds (of tea and coffee)

one who furnishes the money

broth; stock; sauce

being reluctant to give out (pay, provide, etc.); giving out grudgingly

one's share (in the expenses)

belated

one's share (in the expenses)

free flow of water

protruding tooth; overbite; bucktooth

projection; protrusion; lump; bulge

performer; actor; actress; cast