Vocabulary

grayish

details and summaries

to not turn out as one wishes; to not go as one expected

scientific world; world of science; scientific circles; scientific community

proofreader

Britain (island); Great Britain

contortion; distortion; warp; bend; skew

double bump (printing the same colour twice); double hit

trust the judgement of the experienced; an old horse won't forget the way

old horse

print; printing

Cardiff (Wales, UK)

good-looking mature man

dialectal kanji; kanji only used in a specific region

following sentence; succeeding sentence

news value

merogony

slotter (machine tool)

Commonwealth of Australia

backwardness; underdevelopment

taxiing (of an aircraft)

mistake in writing; clerical error; slip of the pen

Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)

Chinese poem with five characters per line

Chinese poem with seven characters per line

nominalization

French translation

first translation

translation

rewarding good deeds

rewarding good and punishing evil

original name

reference (e.g. to a dictionary, passage, footnotes); consultation; comparison

exhibition of pictures; painting exhibition; art exhibition

studying abroad in Japan

master painter

treatise on painting; essay on painting; theory of painting

makyō; Chinese magic mirror; bronze mirror that projects a hidden sacred image when reflecting a beam of light

other business

yuanqu (form of Chinese classical drama); Yuan drama