思想としての文学 – Vocabulary list

retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation; command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; descent from heaven

1

大たい陸りく的てき

continental; calm; not worried with unimportant details

1

合ごう理り論ろん

rationalism

2

思し索さく

speculation; thinking; meditation

1

敵てき対たい

hostility; antagonism; opposition

1

現げん象しょう論ろん

phenomenology; phenomenalism

1

市し民みん

citizen; citizenry; city inhabitant; townspeople; bourgeoisie; middle class

8

信しん奉ぽう者しゃ

adherent; devotee; believer

1

醒さめる

to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned

1

引ひき締しめる

to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain

1

局きょく部ぶ的てき

localized (pain, rainfall, etc.); local

1

物ものとする

shall ...; to assume; to suppose

1

批ひ判はん者しゃ

critic

1

啓けい蒙もう思し想そう

the philosophy of the European Enlightenment

1

甦よみがえる

to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back

1

気き

spirit; mind; nature; disposition; motivation; intention

5

又または

or; either ... or ...

1

いくつも

many; much; plenty; hardly

2

別べつ々べつ

separate; respective

2

流りゅう儀ぎ

way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)

1

かねがね

since long ago; already; for quite a while; for some time now

1

いや応おうなしに

whether one likes it or not; inevitably; unavoidably; compulsorily; by force

1

分ぶん類るい

classification; categorization; sorting

6

外がい交こう官かん

diplomat

1

同どう盟めい

alliance; union; league

1

能のうがない

incompetent; have no merit

1

多た量りょう

large quantity; large amount

1

斎さい藤とう

Saitou

1

首しゅ相しょう

prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier

1

谷たに崎ざき潤じゅん一いち郎ろう

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)

1

粟あわ屋や

Awaya

1

次じ官かん

vice-minister; undersecretary

1

評ひょう価かの尺しゃく度ど

evaluation measure

1

俗ぞく物ぶつ的てき

materialistic; worldly-minded; uncultured

20

卑ひ下げ

self-abasement; humility; self-depreciation

1

内ない心しん

inner thoughts; real intention; at heart; deep down; inner center (centre)

1

超ちょう俗ぞく

aloofness

11

上うわべ

exterior; surface; outside; outward appearance; looks

1

暗あんに

implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely

2

坐ざ禅ぜん

zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)

1

俳はい句く

haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

1

なまけ者もの

lazy person; lazy fellow; slothful person

1

信しん念ねん

belief; faith; conviction

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Vocabulary list: 思想としての文学