Vocabulary

school arts festival

reform school; juvenile reformatory

successful meeting

theological school; seminary

washing place (e.g. for laundry or tableware)

borderline between life and death; verge of death

profound

to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin

snail; spiral shell

friendship; friendly relations; fellowship

share; portion; quota; cut

early ripening rice

to appear uncomfortable (with); to seem to hate; to express dislike

hygienic; sanitary

feminine; effeminate

harvest moon (trad. 15th day of the 8th lunar month)

stern; grave; solemn; sobersided

waking up; awakening; arousal; revival

burning incense (before an altar, esp. in memory of the dead); offering incense

following (a precedent, former policy, etc.); continuing with; sticking to; observing

warm district; region of mild climate

electric furnace

breaking off (an engagement, negotiations, etc.); cancellation

visual angle

choice; selection

territory; domain; dominion; possession; sphere of action

weeding; weeder; weeding fork

washing with cold water (without using soap, etc.)

preparation; provision; establishment

half-cooked; vague; halfhearted; indecisive

daily visit to a temple or shrine (to worship)

wild chrysanthemum; aster

currency strap; banknote strap; currency band; money band

to not know how to act or what to do; to be at a loss

giving up farming for another profession

old tree

amphibia; amphibian

aristocrat; nobleman; dignitary; person of high rank

embrace; hug; holding in one's arms

all kinds of things; various things; large number of people