Vocabulary

Western-style; Western-fashioned

to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of

remarkable; striking; brilliant; splendid; spectacular; wonderful

weak; weakly; feeble; frail; delicate; faint (voice, sunlight, etc.)

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow

counter for bundles

coarse; rough; crude

hope of success; prospects of success

to put back up; to stand back up

to be fascinated (by); to be captivated by; to be enchanted by; to gaze admiringly at; to watch in fascination

to let go by; to let pass; to overlook; to miss

rising; exacerbated; exasperated; accelerated; aggravated

fluent; flowing; elegant

neat and clean; tidy; trim

trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do)

underwater navigation

off the mark; off base; misdirected; irrelevant

puppet; marionette

demon of ill health; disease

construction; building

bell-shaped bronze vessel of Yayoi period

wind direction

front shrine; hall of worship

joys and sorrows

document transmission

stubbornly; firmly; determinedly; obstinately; resolutely; adamantly

marsh land; swamp

actual profit; practical use; benefit

China

bad smell

fixing one's aim in life; deciding one's life goal

hand-copied sutras; copying of a sutra

deity; god

intuition

peanut (Arachis hypogaea); groundnut

falsehood and truth; fiction and fact

flash flood

head temple of a Buddhist sect

outline; survey; compendium

in full force; in great numbers; in droves