Vocabulary

trash

catching flies; fly-catcher; flytrap; flypaper

living things

fortune; good deed; curious

white sand

hoarse voice (caused by a cold)

waiting for favorable wind; waiting for favourable wind

god of the wind; wind god

windbreak

top (of a flight of stairs); end (of a moving walkway)

to coil around; to twine around; to cling (to)

(written) report; notification; notice

sense of the vanity of life; perception of the evanescence of life

accustoming oneself to a certain taste

oscillator

reduction in friction; lubrication

secretly; covertly; tacitly

stretching of cloth

a nest of sake cups

var. of folksong; var. of koto or shamisen music; medley of (Japanese) songs

time and effort; trouble

animal desires; carnal desires; lust

revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians

registered

speculation

daughter of the home; unmarried woman who owns (the future rights to) a home

lonely

stake; pile

apparent age (of someone); rough age

Japanese freshwater crab (Geothelphusa dehaani)

mass production of inferior goods

arrow feathers

revolutionary song

revolutionary

rough skin (like that of a shark)

bedroom theft or thief

perch

recitation; chant

sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth)

(person treated as a) plaything