Vocabulary

bathroom; toilet (room)

touching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz)

font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine

(imperial) reign; period

please make yourself comfortable; please relax your sitting position

used item (to be sold to a shop); unwanted goods

discarding; throwing away; getting rid of

amulet or talisman issued by a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple

visiting a shrine or temple to give thanks

scholar beholden to the government; self-serving academic; scholar who toadies up to government authorities

purveyor (to the government or Imperial Household)

a company union

pro-government newspaper; newspaper that curries favour with the government

the rounds of tradesmen going door to door

scolding; telling-off; talking-to; dressing-down

audience (with a lord, dignitary, etc.); interview

(being) most satisfactory; (being) quite satisfied; (being) quite enough

ahead; before

flunky; cat's-paw; tool; person whose services are at the disposal of another

goshuin; seal stamp given to worshippers and visitors to shrines and temples

shogun-authorized trading vessel (authorised)

the majority (of people); majority view; behaviour of the majority

privy seal; imperial seal

imperial garments

sunrise viewed from the top of a high mountain; the rising sun

attending (upon); keeping another company; being a confidant; serving (a nobleman)

fairyland; never-never land

recommendation (of an influential person); order

(imperial) words

being invited

acquaintance; making someone's acquaintance

the spoken words of the emperor or a noble

inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; the trouble of coming (going)

offering

worry; care; consideration

boasting of one's hometown

usual; normal; stereotyped

ox-drawn coach

dying; kicking the bucket

barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house