Vocabulary

raw egg

confectionery production

red tide

scoring the first point; winning the first game

tending a store

transmigration; reincarnation; metempsychosis

(giving) instruction (esp. in the secrets of an art, discipline, etc.); initiation; teaching; passing on; imparting

electrician

stolen goods; stolen article; loot; spoils

intoxication

skull

single-person cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell

home country

bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; outdoors (non-greenhouse cultivation of crops)

stage director

argument based on emotion; sentimental argument

overview of history

allocation or dispatching of cars (despatching)

conferral of honors (honours), according to merits

rostrum; the world of criticism

narrowly averting death

extremity; desperation

postage stamp

famous mountain

fine horse; famous horse

(built) on sand

mountainous country

feudal lord

irrigation

a third force

bargaining point; terms of exchange; conditions for meeting a demand

founder of a religious sect

education and learning

paper quality

Shinto priest; Shinto priesthood

forty-ninth day after a person's death

privately operated; private management

revisiting; visiting again

on the wane (e.g. popularity of something); decline of one's fortunes

maneuvers; manoeuvers; machinations; scheming