Vocabulary

recommendation

adviser; advisor; counselor; counsellor

letter of advice

praise and encouragement

to win favour; to win favor

backer; promoter

twisted paper; twisted-paper string

urging; persuasion

morality play

encouragement of agriculture

canvasser; traveling salesman; travelling salesman; door-to-door solicitor

to roll up; to be rolled up

to twine around

to rewind

gold-covered woodwork at a temple in Hiraizumi

end of a book

to be unable to endure; to be unable to stand (something); to lose patience

patience; forbearance; endurance; tolerance

to be out of patience; to be unable to put up with something anymore

adultery; fornication; illicit intercourse

villain; scoundrel

adulterer; paramour

adulteress

sentence

finished product; finished goods; completed article

exact copy

perfectionist

completely; thoroughly; decisively; unsparingly; beyond recognition; until there's no untouched (undamaged) part

government permission; official licence; official license; government permit

government business

government district

sensual; voluptuous; sexy; arousing

government expense

Chief Cabinet Secretary

official orders

official use; government business

bureaucratization; bureaucratisation

bureaucracy

Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty)

broadminded