Vocabulary

piano piece for four hands; composition for piano four-hands

Japanese apricot and shiso

noon; midday

early autumn

calendar maker; almanac maker

charcoal paper; paper used in charcoal drawing

Music Bureau (Han dynasty; government office responsible for collecting folk songs)

faint memory; vague memory; dim memory; vague recollection

snow chains

mined strip (of land)

sawing lengthwise (timber, lumber)

hay; dry grass

quasi-mandate contract; time and material contract

poulterer

cinnamon (color)

pork butcher

hand regard (developmental milestone in babies)

indirect selling; indirect sales

standing print of an anime character, idol, etc. on an acrylic sheet

specialist subcontract work (in construction)

Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

carpenter

purpose; business purpose; corporate purpose

boiled crab

low spirits; lack of enthusiasm; lack of motivation; having no drive (to do something)

exemption from tax and inspection

cable railway

soapmaking

liquid soap

odontoma

chief of staff (of US president)

chief of staff (esp. of US president)

tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem

hygroscope

trident

trident

tachanka (horse-drawn machine gun wagon)

self-directed arrangements (esp. in contrast to guided travel tours); independent activity; taking one's own course; acting at one's own discretion

blind mole-rat (Spalax leucodon)

nanny