playhouse; theatre; theater
standing signboard; billboard; hoarding
general public; the masses
drama; theatre; theater; play
opening (the doors to an event, etc.); inauguration
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself
Buddhist priest; monk; boy
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky
one mountain; pile (of something); heap; hump; worst part; large profit
close-cropped hair; shaven head
to toss (i.e. one's head); to wave (i.e. a flag); to stand up energetically; to raise one's voice
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
Buddhist; disciple of Buddha
many; much; a great amount; (arch.) excessive amount
to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)
kappore (traditional Japanese comic dance)
Kisen (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers
Apocrypha (i.e. as opposed to the Biblical canon); non-Buddhist writings (esp. Confucian writings)
Chinese book; Chinese classics
to provide; to furnish; to equip; to install
chest of drawers; bureau; cabinet; tansu; dresser
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics
Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period
willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string
Mencius (372-289 BCE); Mengzi; Mencius (one of the Four Books)
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
tea-ceremony procedures; skill; dexterity; (arch.) you
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
virile; tough; masculine; intense
fierce or defiant look; determined expression; plucky countenance
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
castle tower; keep; donjon
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
shaft of an arrow (usu. made of thin bamboo); cornetfish
mountains and rivers; natural surroundings