Vocabulary

leaving early

index

general survey; looking through; looking over

highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style

colloquialism; colloquial language; slang

slip; error; failure

stagnation; hindrance; delay

inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem

bamboo ladle

becoming red-hot; red heat; scorching heat; burning heat

twenty years of age

measuring by feel; adjusting by feel; doing by feel; knack; skill

beckoning

heavy drinker

Confucianism

self-improvement; (mental) training; self-discipline; cultivation

all eyes; public attention

congestion (with blood); hyperemia; hyperaemia

regarding highly; attaching importance to

deep sleep; sound sleep; profound sleep

patrol

shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety

jinku; lively Japanese folk song or dance tune

daffodil (esp. Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis); narcissus

The Water Margin (classic of Chinese literature); Outlaws of the Marsh; All Men are Brothers

attaining enlightenment; becoming a Buddha; entering Nirvana

legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine)

greens

medium-grade millstone

cumulonimbus cloud

spinal cord

cut; notch; incision

initiative; pioneering

peat

in the face of the enemy; before the enemy

flute player; flutist; flautist; piper

skylight

the sun; sunlight; heat of the sun

tenant (esp. in contrast to a landlord); renter

evangelist