Vocabulary

volume of water (in a river, pond, flood, etc.)

difficulties in living

careful selection

shifting the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); passing the buck

dried daikon strips

writing paper; stationery; notepaper

awamori; strong Okinawan liquor distilled from rice or millet

this institution; the main institution

plants; medicinal herbs

rain intensity

summer grass

sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence

toothache

master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee

the human body; one's person

after the rain

proportional division; proportional distribution

elopement; running away with a lover

recording; transcription

rust

(dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains

first part (of a book, film, etc.); first volume

undressing; taking off one's clothes; stripping

next year

going into a huddle

divorce

riding fast; driving a horse fast

Yangtze River (China); Changjiang River

midair stunt; aerial stunts

decomposition; ulceration

small consideration (remuneration, token of gratitude)

banter; teasing; chaffing; raillery; josh

eighth month of the lunar calendar

gong; handbell

suicide (carried out with a blade, gun, etc.)

season; time of the year

farming on one's own land; independent farmer; landed farmer; owner farmer

biological older sister; real elder sister

wall newspaper; wall poster

the entire strength; all hands; all the members