Vocabulary

orange-peel oil

kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11

artistic modulations in traditional Japanese performances; opening, middle and climax (end)

Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa); Malayan banyan; Indian laurel; curtain fig

this; this one

seal script character

incense box

incense container

flowers and incense (given as a Buddhist offering)

incense-smelling game

Indian sandalwood (Santalum album); white sandalwood

sandalwood oil

affiliated school

affiliated hospital; university hospital

round herring (Etrumeus teres)

round herring (Etrumeus teres)

munching; devouring; gobbling up; ravenously

tousled; shaggy (hair); scraggly (beard); dishevelled; disheveled; unkempt

of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)

finely chopped round herring

novice driver mark; V-shaped green and yellow symbol that newly qualified drivers in Japan must display on their cars

(coalition of) the Liberal Democratic Party, the Liberal Party and Komeito

(car) being run off the road

barbed wire

rivet

pit viper (esp. the mamushi, Gloydius blomhoffi)

ringworm (of the body); tinea corporis

euglena (freshwater flagellate)

roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; intestinal worm

cannot contain one's anger; can't contain myself; staying angry

buckle

spark plug

socket wrench; box wrench; socket spanner

barbed wire

wrist

bracer (arm guard used in archery)

calf

sole of the foot

ragworm; sandworm; clam worm (Hediste)

maggot