Vocabulary

Macabeu (wine grape variety)

Marsanne (wine grape variety)

Marselan (wine grape variety)

electromagnetism (usu. in engineering)

Négrette (wine grape variety)

Nielluccio (wine grape variety)

Sciacarello (wine grape variety)

Vermentino (wine grape variety)

Piquepoul (wine grape variety); Picpoul; Picapoll

Piquepoul noir (wine grape variety)

Piquepoul blanc (wine grape variety)

clear lacquer

vermilion lacquer (made by mixing vermilion into clear lacquer)

rush-thatched house

to cultivate (land); to clear (land)

openly and secretly; helping in all ways

helping and protecting in all ways; acting as a raincoat (protecting from rain) and acting as a hat (protecting from sun)

Astana (Kazakhstan)

Oslo (Norway)

pyrotechnic signal; signal flare

narrow insight; narrow view

to have a narrow view of things; to look at the sky through a tube

locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost

better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the Buddha you don't

better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the god you don't

a wise retainer chooses a great lord to serve; a wise bird chooses a good tree in which to roost

merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period

fish in a pot about to be boiled; person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger

Korean

Poulsard (wine grape variety)

Roussanne (wine grape variety)

Savagnin (wine grape variety)

Sylvaner (wine grape variety); Silvaner

Terret blanc (wine grape variety)

Terret noir (wine grape variety)

Terret gris (wine grape variety)

prefectural tournament

heart seeking knowledge; thirst for knowledge

kneeling down (to pray); going down on one's knees

burgundy (red)