Vocabulary

koto music

good pitch

partition between two rooms; room divider; partition wall

shipment; forwarding

steamship (shipping) company

saddle

(written) appeal; circular; manifesto

lump-sum payment; paying the entire sum in one transaction

to use as an intermediary

poor catch (fishing)

historic spot; historic site; place of historical interest; historic remains; ruins

overloading (someone; with work); overworking (someone); overwhelming; flooding (e.g. with tasks)

reckless deforestation; overcutting of forests

youthful; young; young-looking

deceased father; late father

original title

misunderstanding; misapprehension; misconception; false impression; wrong idea

caution; admonition; warning; lesson

fallen scraps; scatterings

shrinkage

that is to say; that is; in other words; I mean; that (this, it) means

spoken language; colloquial expression

to create (a sensation); to cause (a commotion); to give rise to (controversy)

haughty; arrogant; proud; stuck-up

forming into an organization; forming into an organisation; setting up a group

placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary); interring ashes

being settled; coming to a conclusion

live-in (e.g. job)

eldest brother

labor; labour; service

item of expenditure

repayment of someone's kindness; showing one's gratitude; moral requital

threat

calling (someone a thief, coward, etc.); branding (as); denouncing

red clay; red earth; laterite

nuclear umbrella

rapids; shallows of a river

instrumental quintet

effectiveness; efficacy; efficaciousness

recovery