Vocabulary

ferryman

wanderer

crossing a river

making one's way in the world; (making a) living; (earning a) livelihood

truancy

mountain climber

directory; inventory

betting; gambling

stopover (during a train or bus journey)

city style; metropolitan

Tokyo meeting hall

leaving (fleeing) the capital

whetstone; grindstone

hard worker; hardworking person

histogram

lapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind; forgetting for a moment something one knows well

lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind

broad-mindedness

weights and measures

lump of earth; clod

drowned body of a person

landslide

aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

sandbag

fertile shoot of field horsetail

earthen walls (of fortification); earthwork; embankment

dust; cloud of dust

servant (esp. a samurai's attendant)

reflection

reading Chinese in the Japanese order

hanging (someone) upside down

inverted word; verlan

dying by the wayside

child dying before parents

inverted image

inversion of the word order in a sentence; anastrophe

overthrow of the shogunate

handstand

party strife; faction

factionalism