Vocabulary

Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli)

worker ant

sign on a post (esp. containing information about a sight, warnings, congratulations, etc.)

small shrine built at a crossroads

vehicle waiting to be hired

highwayman

attacking a passerby with a sword (to test its sharpness or one's skill); samurai who tries out his sword on a passerby

red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus)

bowl of rice

udon restaurant

udon flour (wheat flour)

prickly heat powder; baby powder; talc powder

obstinacy; stubbornness

gallery (of a theatre)

premature birth

the other side of a river

rat poison

thought; consideration; fears

prickly waterlily (Euryale ferox)

penholder (handle into which a penpoint fits)

Leaning Tower of Pisa

rifle

rye (Secale cereale)

cyanite; kyanite

continued fraction

binary star

seaside school

critical point (temperature)

rotation of crops

eccentricity

population of a fief

both hands

particle size; grain size; granularity

prosperity

event hall

complex ion

Nitidotellina nitidula (species of tellin)

yesterday's paper; yesterday's issue

acid radical

powdered medicine