Vocabulary

purification rite (esp. one held prior to a Shinto event)

specific concept; species

letter

hangover

Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)

spring storm

submitting (something) to an exhibition

sangha (the Buddhist community)

elementary reaction

prime factor

racemous inflorescence; raceme

flower arrangement

side chain

combed wool (yarn)

full two-story house

plastic deformation

facies

staying overnight without meals (at a hotel, etc.); bed without board

flood disaster; drowning

foot of a perpendicular line

on the verge of dying

waste; wastage; waster

stainless steel

strikebreaker; scab; strikebreaking

cooling oneself; enjoying the cool air

tobacco money; money to buy a pack of cigarettes

transitive verb

eye of a typhoon; eye of a tropical cyclone

staying in Europe

decadence; decline

solar day

freshwater lake

monosaccharides

spelling

fixed pulley

base; radix

garden

visiting a grave

iron door

frontispiece