Vocabulary

school (building)

lagoon

hayfield; field of miscanthus

temple solicitation book

government official; public servant; civil servant

sweetener (sugar, honey, saccharin, maltose, etc.); sweetening agent; sweetening

eating between meals; snacking

mishmash; miscellany; medley; jumble; mixture; odds and ends

(moral) backbone; spirit; soul; grit

steam whistle

wizard; genius; remarkable talent; exceptional ability

counting backwards; calculating backwards

phone trace; detecting the source of a telephone call

adsorption

whistle (sound made with the lips)

death by hanging; execution by hanging

rainfall; precipitation

existing alongside (each other); mixture; intermingling

swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man

sewing; needlework

exploitation; bleeding dry; squeezing dry

number of books

washing-up; dish-washing

three meals (a day)

congratulatory visit to the Imperial Palace (e.g. at New Year)

sprinkling water over; water sprinkling

being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money)

second son

sixth anniversary of a death

the seven spring flowers

set phrase; stock phrase; conventional expression; usual wording; cliché; clichéd line

burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture

duel; shoot-out

conspiracy; collusion

platelet; thrombocyte

moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar)

fittings that open and close (doors, windows, shoji, fusuma, etc.); fixtures

under the eaves

original word; original language

old style; ancient rites