Vocabulary

grilled eggplant; fried eggplant

long shot

keeping a bird as a pet; aviculture; person who keeps a bird as a pet; aviculturist; bird breeder

go players and bird keepers are idiots (both activities demand a lot of time)

go players have no concept of time (being so engrossed in the game)

go player

dan-ranked go player

to be out of the house often; to spend little time at home; to go out a lot

Polemonium kiushianum (species of Jacob's ladder)

Polemonium caeruleum subsp. yezoense var. nipponicum (variety of Jacob's ladder)

large chorus

everyone has their favorite; pick the right thing to please someone; catnip for cats, gold coins for prostitutes

flower that is said to cause rain if picked (convolvulus, etc.)

sporty (car, design, feel, etc.); racing-style; designed for racing

excess deaths; excess mortality

excess mortality rate; mortality displacement

main account (on social media, etc.); principal account; real-name account

main account (on social media, etc.); principal account; real-name account

(showing) no reaction; non-reaction; straight face

main account (on social media, etc.); principal account

main account (on social media, etc.); principal account

I can't find the words to thank you; I can never thank you enough

Ōtsu-e; Edo-period folk art genre of painting originating in Ōtsu

autonomy

carrying (someone) on one's back (esp. a child); piggyback ride

opposition

culvert

campanula; bellflower

gantry

quenching

cravat

creeper (child not yet walking)

chromium (Cr)

quad

theory of ideas; Platonic idealism

attending a cram school; commuting to a cram school

grime

grass roots (of society); grassroots

deputy estate steward; deputy jitō

email account