Vocabulary

rounding up stray dogs

Fires on the Plain (1951 novel by Ooka Shohei)

non-official history; privately composed history

funeral; burial (service); funeral procession

curious onlookers; rubbernecks

curious personality; nosiness; curiosity; rubbernecking

clothes for doing farm work or working in fields

dying by the roadside; dying a dog's death

untutored; wild

stallkeeper (at a festival, fair, etc.); street vendor; street performer; peddler; hawker; huckster

field gun; field artillery

wild horse

outing; picnic; excursion

camp site; campground

burning off a field (in early spring)

wild birds

wild rocambole (Allium grayi)

path in a field

Japanese yellow bunting (Emberiza sulphurata)

boorishness; coarseness; stupidity

minor business

Siberian rubythroat (Luscinia calliope)

Fauvism; the Fauvists

open-air storage; piling up out in the open; leaving in a pile outside

common stonechat (Saxicola torquata)

person entrusted with someone's money, belongings, land, etc.

object left in a person's charge

depositor

cash-deposit ratio

claim check; baggage check; luggage check; deposit receipt

love of easy money

mercenary spirit; mind oriented to money-making

archery range; archery ground

shooting range; firing range

place for an aeroplane to take target practice (airplane)

thank-you letter; letter of apology

reward; monetary expression of thanks

published apology

rabbit hutch

ward tax