Vocabulary

respect for olden days

on the roof; court nobles

temple keeper

(staring in) astonishment; amazement

boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes

China

hinged door

books from China

mortar

ancient Chinese clothes

China-made thread or yarn

bronze

karamon; large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle)

oaf; blockhead; stupid person; dunce; insensitive person

Karatsu ware; Karatsu porcelain

castor oil plant (Ricinus communis); castor oil bean

crimson

karahafu; bow-shaped eaves of a gabled roof; undulating gable; cusped gable

thick printed paper (for covering sliding doors)

paper umbrella; bamboo-and-oiled-paper umbrella

Indian millet

Chinese ink

Chinese poem

plow (esp. horse or ox-drawn); plough

Chinese brocade

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

spruce tree (esp. Picea jezoensis hondoensis, a variety of Ezo spruce)

six-legged Chinese-style chest

conversion to sugar; saccharification

sugar coating

going up and down; ascent and descent

looking at someone (with upturned eyes); glancing upwards (at someone)

false bottom; fake bottom; raised bottom; platform (shoes); kick (of a bottle)

superior court

piece of wood at the front edge of an entranceway floor; front portion of the floor of the genkan

good customer; prime customer; valued clientele

entrance (i.e. of a Japanese house)

stock turnover

commercial bill; commercial paper; CP

mercantile nation