Vocabulary

practice-swinging (sword, bat, tennis racket, etc.)

the contracting business

a buyer's market

selling price

cuckoo

pounding lightly on the shoulders (to relieve stiffness); shoulder massage; massage stick for pounding the shoulders

hypothetical or imaginary enemy

new (residential) area (esp. built on reclaimed land during the Edo period); newly-opened region

opening (of uncultivated land)

street vendor; peddler

the last stage

natural or automatic increase in revenue

disintegration

mudslinging contest; mudslinging match

arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

surface of a board (shogi, go, etc.); (state of) the board; development of a game

sampling a drink; tasting

autumn rain front; fall rain front

audience with the Emperor; imperial audience

cutting into four; quarter

westward trip; trip to the West

large number of people

(raw) ore

key money (esp. on an apartment); premium (payment)

checking account; current account

terrible luck (esp. on an omikuji slip); very bad luck

Mahayana (Buddhism); the Great Vehicle

voluminous work; bulky volume; tome

vegetable oil

slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt

male voice

reasoning; logic; persuasion

pharmacology

lengthy military expedition

public order; public policy

determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech

passer-by; traveler; traveller

destination

anti-foreign

acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation