contract; compact; agreement
to harvest; to reap; to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice)
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
total floor space (incl. all floors)
to precede; to forestall; to anticipate
tenement house; row house
mansion; palace; (arch.) nobleman; (arch.) noblewoman; (arch.) cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.)
adding (equipment, facilities, etc.); establishing more; installing more; increase; extension; expansion
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
field; sphere; realm; division; branch
choice article; item of excellent quality; masterpiece
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days
lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs
tie up; bind; sum; total amount; judo choking (strangling) techniques; last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping; completion
Japanese style; light wind; moderate breeze
shoji (paper sliding door)
every year; yearly; annually
from ... to; between ... and; or
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
aka-e; late 19th century woodblock prints, using imported aniline dyes; red painting on ceramics
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
outline; summary; roughly; generally; great ingenuity; excellent resourcefulness
mention (in a document); record; entry; statement; listing
several times; several degrees
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
refined; genteel; graceful; decent
selection; making a choice; sifting; decision to adopt or reject