Vocabulary

servant's clothes provided by an employer; livery

custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

stimulant; excitant; irritant

irritativeness; irritation; stimulativeness; pungency

stimulating; exciting; provocative

stimulant; stimulative; excitant

wrestler's stage name

to stiffen; to harden

to blunder; to fail; to make a mistake; to miss

to blunder; to fail; to make a mistake

proof printing

undershorts; underpants

undercoat; first coat

fern (esp. species Gleichenia japonica); fernery

portable earthen charcoal brazier (for cooking)

tightly (holding on); firmly; securely

cloisonne ware

to (go and) do; to make (a blunder, mess, etc.); to perpetrate; to carry out

to accomplish; to finish; to fulfill

ornamental ridge-end tile

having one's own way; giving free rein to one's desires; acting as one pleases

end; close; finish; termination

true bristletail (any insect of order Thysanura, esp. of family Lepismatidae)

to ooze; to exude; to percolate; to soak through

auxiliary verb indicating the causative voice

rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

to annoy; to irritate; to cause offence; to provoke; to get on someone's nerves

sketchbook

central meaning; principal meaning; main idea

every state; every province

entering the service of a daimyo

serving a master; employee

grasping; winning over

week-old

reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end

temple; monk's quarters

Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

to be good (at); to go well

to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think

iaido (art of drawing the Japanese sword)