Vocabulary

playhouse; theatre; theater

head of family; head house

cessation of publication

decathlon

gun point; muzzle

one's destination; place where someone is going; place where someone has gone

library; book storage; stack room

epic (poem); epic poetry

commercial company

promotion; advancement

yakisoba; fried noodles, usu. with vegetables and meat

the same rank; equality

toxin; poisonous substance

sutra chanting

private pupil; apprentice

cartilage

perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot

two things; two persons

one's own handwriting; autograph

(kinds of) meat

admission (to a school); entrance; enrolment; enrollment

quantity of heat (e.g. in calories, BTU, etc.); heat value; calorific value

long service

chronological record

annual report; yearbook

barn (for storage); shed; outbuilding

old woman

seeing; looking at

being evenly matched; being equal with; being on a par with; being well contested

egg white

publisher

eligibility for election

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets

committal; reference; submission (e.g. to committee); commitment

floating

competitive spirit; spirit of rivalry; aversion to losing

winds and clouds; nature; the elements

leeward; lee; downwind

reinstatement; reappointment

obedience; submission; resignation