Vocabulary

plot of a play

to play a trick; to put up a false show; to deceive someone

firewood gathering

brushwood fence

Chinese poetry

prosperity; happiness; blessedness and joy

to frown (on); to be grim-faced; to look sullen

status of samurai

without capital

fatty heart

corpus adiposum

strained lees (e.g. sake, tofu); draff

slack; loose; lax; slovenly; sloppy

to blot; to stain; to smudge

to be charged with a mission

to carry out one's mission

to conspire (with); to prearrange

last two figures of a number

gray; grey; frosted; hoary; frosty

stratum of society

linchpin

Socialist and Communist Parties

ladle; dipper

Kukai (name of a Buddhist priest)

small plot of land

Buddhist sutras; Buddhist literature

to measure with a rule

to measure (the length)

coalition of the Socialist Party and the Komeito

state; country; nation

to photograph; to take a picture

to take a picture; to take a photo

to get deeper in debt; to pile up debts

to be distressed with debts

security for a loan; collateral

oblique projection

company policy

male Buddhist novice

shortsighted; narrow-minded

prison uniform