Vocabulary

one's old bones; aged body

dying in prison

head of a prisoners' group (Edo period)

(Edo-period) jail warden; jailer

jailbreak; breaking out of prison

prison guard; jailer; gaoler

narrow, dirty backstreet

cramped home; one's humble abode; hovel; pigsty; cottage; squalid hut

bad habit; evil custom; harmful practice

compromise; mutual concessions; give-and-take

deed of transfer

transferor; assignor

mortgage

capital gains

negotiable deposit

false daphne (Daphniphyllum macropodum); yuzuriha

brewer

brewing industry

principle of excluding foreigners (late Edo period)

in a bag or one's purse

white race

whitebait

Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto); collared dove

sapwood

unpunctuated Chinese texts

white magnolia (Magnolia denudata); lilytree; Yulan magnolia

daydream; waking dream; fantasy

refined rice flour; rice flour for dumplings

celestial tower where poets, artists, etc. were said to go in the afterlife

melon cucumber

white race; Caucasians

outline map; blank map; base map

white light; corona

kerosene

White House

hand-to-hand combat; fighting at close quarters; close combat

white cloth

whitecaps; white-crested waves

dancing girl (end of the Heian period)

rain shower