Vocabulary

verdigris; green rust; copper rust

exemplification; illustration; example

cold reception; inhospitality

exposure; disclosure

recitation (of Japanese or Chinese poem)

fumigation; smoking (out)

wrinkle; crease

quarrel; dispute; argument

one mountain

where; what place

ancient writing (Edo-period or older); classical literature

early-summer rain

asbestos

suicide by drowning; drowning oneself

captive; prisoner

rainfall; rainy weather; rain

high-pressure selling; aggressive peddling; the hard sell; high-pressure salesman

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind schedule; to be overdue

(gun) battery; fort

ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing

floating stock

masterful performance; virtuosity

sale; selling

prose poem

apparatus gymnastics; artistic gymnastics

certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.); guaranteed (article)

dogmatism

snow blown up from the ground

assignment of vessels

flying boat

anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest

coming home in the morning (after staying out all night)

sales clerk (in a merchant house, ranking between the head clerk and an apprentice); shopman; shop assistant

discounting of a bill

atonement (for one's sins); expiation; making amends; making up for (a misdeed)

dressing in kimono without hakama (for a man); dressing casually

talisman; lucky charm

upward trend

numerical inferiority; being outnumbered

lacking opposition or competition