Vocabulary

slave

sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)

manservant; footman

descendant; scion; lineage

clans supposedly descended from the gods

clans supposedly descended from the imperial family

clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean)

foreign lands

acquaintanceship

preconscious (psychoanalysis)

(Kantian) pure reason

rationalism

innateness; innate feature (or character, etc.)

innate idea; innate ideas

innate idea; innate ideas

acquired idea (as opposed to innate); acquired ideas

self-consciousness

self-consciousness

transcendental idealism

Frankfurt School (school of social theory and critical philosophy)

transcendental consciousness

eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness)

manas-vijnana (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self)

the three major labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, and labor relations adjustment law)

labor relations adjustment law (labour)

Kutani ware (style of Japanese porcelain)

birch tree (esp. the Japanese white birch, Betula platyphylla var. japonica)

Japanese white birch oil

double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)

double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)

higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox)

double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)

Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)

Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)

clove cherry (Prunus apetala)

sandbank in a river

ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry

Japanese box tree (Buxus microphylla var. japonica)

storehousebush (Cudrania tricuspidata); mandarin melon berry; silkworm thorn; cudrang

Chinese mulberry (Morus bombycis)