Vocabulary

pre-payment; advance payment

sakubei; twisted confectionery eaten during Tanabata

nuta; side dish (often fish salad) dressed with vinegared miso

crane ship; floating crane

sunken ship; submerged vessel

rice-planting machine; rice transplanter

being stretched too thin; being pulled in all directions; even with several bodies it wouldn't be enough

pocket knife

electronic structure

one's new address; place where someone settles down

bowl (suitable for noodles)

thermal oxidation

aerogel

sodium metabisulfite; sodium pyrosulfite

hydroacid; hydracid; non-oxygenous acid

checkmate move; mating move; ending (of a game)

naked above the waist; stripped to the waist; shirtless

payment error; mischarge

rock candy; sugar candy; crystallized sugar; sugar crystals

celebration for the end of rice planting; festival held when all rice has been planted

purification ritual

fireproofing treatment (e.g. of a building)

Buddhist law; Buddhist teaching

incomprehensibly long time; infinity

tint

white rust (disease)

side stitch (bookbinding); side-wire stitch; flat stitch

alienation and estrangement felt by highly academically able students

root removal; stump removal

pruning; trimming; lopping

replanting

stand (of trees); forest stand

generics

harbour; harbor; port

arachidic acid; eicosanoic acid; arachic acid

cerotic acid; hexacosanoic acid

citraconic acid; methylmaleic acid

mucic acid

jasmone

montanic acid