Vocabulary

application (of ointment, etc.)

roofed corridor connecting two buildings; connecting passageway

mud wall; earthen wall; plaster wall

midsummer (late July through early August); dog days (of summer)

proceeding east

busying oneself about (something); being on the move; bestirring oneself; on the go; taking an active interest

hot-spring cure; taking the baths

bathtub

soy milk

transparency

potter; ceramist; ceramicist

yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration

reading through (a book); finishing (a book)

bibliography (list of books by an author or on a subject)

heartbreak; grief; sorrow

excerpt; abridgment; abridgement; book of selections

marshland; wetland; swampland

vertical motion (in earthquakes)

private first-class (army); airman first class (air force); lance corporal (US Marines; Commonwealth military); seaman (navy)

affectation; showiness; pretence

changing one's clothing (of a bride or groom during a wedding reception)

index finger; forefinger

letter of credit

sleeping face

spirit (e.g. human spirit); soul

abyss; ravine

posture; attitude

archduke

pickled daikon radish

verselet

minor role; small part

warm current

male domination of women; male chauvinism; subjection of women

bamboo work; bamboo ware

tea ceremony; chanoyu

medium or average price

appendicitis

enshrinement (of a deity); residing (in a shrine or sacred place)

preserved food boiled in sweetened soy sauce

closing (properly); shutting