Vocabulary

virtually nonexistent; negligible

minaret

muezzin

selecting; choosing

interbank transactions

electronic desk calculator

sliding central strip (of a slide rule); slide strip

slide rule

electronic desk calculator

fraternal religious group formed by Ise Shrine worshippers

low-ranking priest

writings about the gods

equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

kagura song

clapper (two long pieces of wood that are clapped together; used in gagaku, etc.)

genre of Heian-period Japanese court music (primarily consisting of gagaku-styled folk melodies)

mourning; mourning period

Chinese chess; xiangqi

xiangqi; Chinese chess

operating voltage; working voltage

sliding or moving along a smooth surface with continuous contact on that surface

rented room

with a bang (of a gun); with a boom (of artillery)

traditional Japanese steel made from iron sand (esp. for use in swords)

leading-in tube; supply conduit

to scrap (work in progress, esp. illustration); to reject; to shelve; to cancel (plans, etc.)

February and August (months when business is generally at its slowest)

eighteen

ivory palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa)

to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be bored (with); to be unable to bear

yoo-hoo; halloo; hi-de-ho; howdy; hey

tracing paper

traverse survey

palmitic acid

megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl); mound builder

homothetic ratio; similitude ratio; ratio of magnification; dilation factor; scale factor

Nixon shock (1971 economic measures)

anthropology

anthropomorphism

anthropocentric