Vocabulary

document circulated to staff to obtain approval (for a decision, policy, etc.)

notice; notification

natural disposition

petition

petition

eta; group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses

this impure world (as opposed to the pure land)

to chide; to rebuke; to reprove

to become haggard; to become gaunt; to become emaciated; to become worn out (from illness, worry, etc.)

to freeze (from fear, etc.); to be unable to move (e.g. from surprise); to be paralyzed (with horror, etc.)

to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)

draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; strainer; sieve

law full of loopholes; toothless law

gag order; gag rule; gag law

proverb; maxim; aphorism

seal-engraving style (of writing Chinese characters); seal script

to sieve; to sift; to winnow; to separate (wheat from chaff)

to sift; to screen

holding a castle (during a siege); holing up

small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below)

(fish) weir; fish trap

lottery; lot; raffle; draw

sore; erosion; ulceration; abscess; decomposition (of a body)

erosive

meandering; winding

turns and twists; ups and downs; meandering; complications; vicissitudes

adhesive bandage; sticking plaster; band-aid

villus

carpet bombing

hank; skein; reel

fine clothes

silk damask; satin damask

thick curtain; drop curtain

to strangle to death

suicide by hanging; hanging oneself

to untangle; to untwine

to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug

satin

crack; crevice; fissure

crackleware