Vocabulary

used tea leaves

giving up or abstaining from tea

tea jar; tea urn

shelf on which tea and tea implements are kept

tea drinking

tea-drinking companion; crony; buddy

teacup

chat over tea

rice boiled in tea flavored with sake and shoyu

stomach filled with tea

tea strainer

tea-picking song

tea-ceremony room; tea-ceremony hut

tea chest

cake or snack served with tea

tea cabinet; cupboard for tea implements

prepayment of income taxes

deposit

preliminary election; primary (election)

farewell party for graduates (held prior to graduation)

foreword; preface; introduction

introduction

foreword; preface; introduction

beginnings; origins

ordinal number

early stages (of a game); opening phase

in the open; the open air

open-air bath

Nowaki (28th roll of the Tale of Genji)

audacious; daring; bold; impudent; cheeky

rounding up stray dogs

Fires on the Plain (1951 novel by Ooka Shohei)

non-official history; privately composed history

funeral; burial (service); funeral procession

curious onlookers; rubbernecks

curious personality; nosiness; curiosity; rubbernecking

clothes for doing farm work or working in fields

dying by the roadside; dying a dog's death

untutored; wild

stallkeeper (at a festival, fair, etc.); street vendor; street performer; peddler; hawker; huckster