Vocabulary

night chat; tale told at night

love song; love poem

charge (of something); matter in one's charge; (one's) assignment; (one's) job

negation; denial; negative

unrequited love; one-sided love

rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet)

huge rock

match declared drawn due to injury

sap

wok; Chinese frying pan

composite or montage photograph

name of a crime; charge

sending documents to a prosecutor; filing charges

illustration; diagram

kitchen door; back door; service door; tradesman's entrance

removing; clearing (away); demolishing

speed reading

resident; residents

one's father

family system; the family (as an institution)

bike-race (betting) ticket

restoration of imperial rule

(Japanese) Imperial Army

man of letters; literary man

high-grade sake; fine drink

answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising

making an incision in the abdomen; performing a laparotomy

humus; leaf mold; leaf mould; mulch

uprising; revolt

businessman with political ties

ejection; eviction; dispossession

liquid oxygen

forearm

microcosmos; microcosm

mutual love

green bamboo

proxy; representative

nominal wages

heap; pile; stack; full measure

start of the mountain-climbing season