Vocabulary

sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi-period suō)

book with reading aids (such as kana or punctuation marks)

Chinese classic without reading aids; book without reading aids

Chinese classic without reading aids; book without reading aids

multi-tiered food boxes that can be carried by hand

multi-tiered food boxes that can be carried by hand

reeled thread

humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot

bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period)

humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot

low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

tally

rat-bite fever; sodoku

scatterer

small fence to keep out people and horses

talking while standing

taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

day on which prostitutes had to receive clients

holiday

just before a war

manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period)

person with a humble salary; person of a low condition

padded spear (for practice)

having a competitive spirit

fortune slip (usu. bought at a shrine)

battle cry; war cry

stalks of butterbur boiled in soy sauce

(one's) handling of the reins; how well one controls things

high salary

punctuality (in reference to public transport); reliability

corporation in liquidation

drooping tail

toxification; turning toxic; turning poisonous

fatal wound

residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period)

demanding again what one has already obtained; coaxing out of someone for a second time

dying; death

useless learning

Kassapa Buddha; Kasyapa Buddha; Kashyapa Buddha

Verse of the Shared Morality of the Seven Buddhas