Vocabulary

contest between two groups

Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual singing contest between famous male and female singers on New Year's Eve; sponsored and broadcast by NHK

ruby

red light

ring finger

powdered rouge

red iron oxide; red ocher

red avadavat (Amandava amandava); strawberry finch; red munia

autumn-leaf viewing; fall-leaf viewing

long-tailed rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus)

cloud of dust; mundane world

bright red

(Chinese) Red Guards

sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka); red salmon

sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

welfare annuity insurance

frying or baking something thick (e.g. thick omelette)

refinement; style; sophistication

cold-water ablutions

bark; howl; roar; bellow

dilettantism; amateurism

red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane

charcoal briquette

black lung

anthrax

carbon compounds

coal dust

explosion of coal dust

carbon paper

carbon assimilation; carbon fixation

charcoal kiln; charcoal pile

coal quality

proteinuria

first half of one's life

relic from an earlier age; something extremely outmoded; museum piece

front matter (of a book); preliminaries

prostatitis

front (of a piece of traditional Japanese clothing)

preliminary bouts with unranked wrestlers; unranked wrestlers

having a long way to go; having a long road ahead of one; being a long way off; being far off