Vocabulary

command of a shogun or a high official

stock (in grafting)

inspection by the empress or the crown prince

visit by the empress or the crown prince

architrave

Straits of Taiwan

Taiwanese person; Taiwanese people

none of your business!; don't bother me!; keep out of it!

greatly; very much

to exaggerate; to overstate

generally speaking; in a broad way

placid; composed; serene; calm

Yamantaka Vidya-raja; conqueror of Death

synopsis; precis; summary; gist; outline

wide area

outrageous lie; outright lie

lady of the house

utter failure; completely wrong guess; big miss

osotogari (judo); major outer reap; major sweeping leg throw

university graduate; college graduate

great talents mature late

air pollution

large-scale integration; LSI

all-out war; full-scale war

to approach the finale; to come to a close

massacre; mass slaughter; genocide; holocaust

sawdust

detached classroom; small branch school

branch office; local office

(electric) polarization; polarisation

polarization; polarisation; lining up with

subdistrict

prefecture-by-prefecture map; atlas of Japan divided by prefecture; map of a single prefecture

detachment; detail

rich man; man of wealth

separation of light into its spectral components; dispersion

spectroscopy

spectroscope; spectrograph

branch factory

burying some of a person's ashes in separate places