Vocabulary

judgement; judgment

cartman

cartwright

aboard a vehicle; in a car; on a train

rickshaw puller; rickshaw driver; rickshaw man

a well equipped with a pulley for drawing water

horses and vehicles

carfare; fare; transportation expenses

carfare; cartage fee

water treatment

working-class dialect of the Shitamachi area of Tokyo

fall; drop; decline

prewashing; preliminary washing

lower court

substructure

conveyance of the views of those below to those at the top

residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses

preparatory activity

subcontracting factory

price stabilization; price stabilisation

price agreement; price-maintenance agreement

price fluctuations

price controls

price manipulation; price fixing

crops planted in summer

summer fever

summer cold (illness); summer flu

summer bird

royalty and titled nobility

royalists; monarchists

Arcadia, presided over by a virtuous king

the theory of the divine right of kings

(Edo-period) humorous literature

type of comic haiku

dying insane

faked suicide; sham suicide; pseudocide

supporting, but indispensable role; major supporting role

insane person; a fanatic

fanatic

raging wind