Vocabulary

northerly (wind); from the north

soy milk

to run about frantically trying to escape; to run this way and that to make one's escape

transparency

potter; ceramist; ceramicist

yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration

reading through (a book); finishing (a book)

to break through; to penetrate; to pierce

to get cloudy; to cloud over; to become overcast

rough (behaviour, temperament, etc.); wild; rude; violent

birth; lineage; parentage; origin

to assemble; to put together; to set up; to construct; to build; to compose (a story, poem, etc.)

priesthood registry

leaving early

index

general survey; looking through; looking over

highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style

to send (a person or thing) to; to deliver; to escort

to hate; to detest

that is (to say); namely; i.e.

colloquialism; colloquial language; slang

slip; error; failure

stagnation; hindrance; delay

inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem

enshrinement (of a deity); residing (in a shrine or sacred place)

to chase about; to hang on; to drive hard

preserved food boiled in sweetened soy sauce

peat

in the face of the enemy; before the enemy

flute player; flutist; flautist; piper

beyond compare; peerless; unrivaled; unique

skylight

the sun; sunlight; heat of the sun

tenant (esp. in contrast to a landlord); renter

to fall off; to tumble down

evangelist

application (of ointment, etc.)

roofed corridor connecting two buildings; connecting passageway

mud wall; earthen wall; plaster wall

midsummer (late July through early August); dog days (of summer)