Vocabulary

honor; honour

(gymnastics) pulling oneself upward with a forward, circling movement; back hip circle

back-combed hair; puffed up hair; teased hair

treachery

to set on end (hair, fur, etc.); to make stand on end; to bristle; to ruffle (up); to raise (one's eyebrows)

backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind

backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind

reaction; adverse effect

treacherous retainer

word said backwards; word of opposite meaning

converse proposition

choppy seas; head sea

cationic soap; invert soap; positive soap

to surge (water or waves)

shaving against the grain; shaving upwards

counterpropaganda

holding a memorial service for oneself

hangnail

turning an object in the wrong direction

baby born feet (or buttocks) first; breech birth

dropping (something) headfirst down a precipice

bad luck; reverse of fortune

reverse order; following a contrary path

a dream which is contradicted by reality

turned-in eyelashes; ingrown eyelashes; trichiasis

paradoxical

inverse function

bad deed which ultimately results in the creation of a good Buddhist

(discount rate) negative spread; loss margin; back spread; downturn

reexportation

going upstream; sailing against the current

redemption; recourse

to glare at; to scowl at

to look upward

welcoming fire for returning spirits (on the first night of the Bon festival)

Meiji Restoration

Son of God

exaggerated; extravagant; overdone

a question from the emperor

hand-me-down