devilish face; diabolical face
Ono Takamura (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)
Oriental garden cricket; Emma field cricket
Emperor Saga; Saga Tenno (786-842 CE, reigning: 809-823 CE)
flexible (of people); open-minded
teacher's mark or grade book
inheritance; succession; accession; share-alike
chickpea (Cicer arietinum); garbanzo bean
bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink
bowl of rice with food on top
fishing boat; boat-shaped hanging flower vase
plaster or mortar-covered wall
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo
Merlion; official mascot of Singapore, depicted as a mythical creature with a lion's head and the body of a fish
scribbling; doodling; graffiti
making a prayer (to a god or Buddha)
to be mentally fatigued; to tired to the bone
bamboo screen; rattan blind
to win fame; to be widely-known; to be well known; to make a name for oneself
Children's Limbo; futile; unrewarding
baumkuchen; spit cake with cross-section resembling tree rings
confidential; secret; classified
Yama; judge of the afterlife
ground cherry (Physalis alkekengi var. franchetii); husk tomato; Chinese lantern plant; children's noisemaking toy
low-ranking prison guard; hell's tormenting devils
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
imperial palace; festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)
reduced scale; scaling down
onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
peerless; unequaled; unequalled
to excuse oneself; to take one's leave; to quit; to resign; to decline; to turn down