Vocabulary

steamer; casserole dish

taking in; harvesting

an intake

(a stock) exchange

volume of business; turnover

layering (a plant)

installation

card to pick up (esp. in hyakunin isshu karuta, i.e. the card printed with the second half of a poem)

money collected

individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

confusion; bustle

confidence trick

service point; agency; office

agent; person in charge

mediation; intercession; smoothing over

low-ranking unsalaried wrestler (ranked below juryo)

as much as one can take or carry away

merit; worth

one's followers or hangers-on

share; portion

mediation; intermediation; procuration; go-between; facilitating a rendezvous between lovers

leaving behind

rice powder

port (side of a ship)

(levying of a) heavy taxation

suzerainty

regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order

Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)

piety

religious studies; study of religion

the Reformation

religious painting; religious picture

philosophy of religion

the Inquisition

religious drama; miracle play

one's family or clan

religious matters

religious regulations

worshipper; admirer

smoothing out wrinkles