Vocabulary

sweet flavour; sweet flavor; mildness

sweet (taste); luscious

wind instrument

flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; brushing aside

(something having its) merits and demerits; advantages and disadvantages; good points and shortcomings

straight line; beeline

printing (text or symbols); typing

hiring from another company; recruitment; scouting; headhunting

attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull

all you can drink; bottomless cup

right side

influence; power

in the rain

circle; ring

to run along; to run beside; to stick to (a line)

trip; excursion; outing

hydrochloric acid

salty taste; saltiness

to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through

byway; side street; cross street

diversion into illegal channels; putting on the black market; selling through illegal channels

fusuma; Japanese sliding screen

downturn (in the market)

subordinate work; menial service; subordinate; underling; servant; maid

draft; rough copy

mobile; moveable

summer solstice

family court

social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; pedigree

to end; to be finished; to be exhausted

written seal; stylized signature

field of flowers; flower garden; flower bed

peerage (in Japan; 1869-1947); nobility; aristocracy

too few; too little; insufficient

instigation

to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate; to energize; to revive; to promote; to make prosperous

rise; prosperity

trade journal

destitution

office worker; salaried worker; white-collar worker