paper patch; paper backing; poster; sticker; label
suitable; satisfactory; desirable
written question; questionnaire
container for boiled rice
to become thin; to fade; to grow pale
sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan
surmise; guess; inference
bridal costume; wedding dress
Saipan (island near Guam)
to feel keenly; to strike to the core; to touch to the quick; to pierce deep inside (e.g. cold)
Department of the Army; Ministry of the Army (Japan; 1872-1945)
dry field farming; dry field crop
fumi-e; fumie; tablet bearing Christian images, on which Edo-period authorities forced suspected Christians to trample; allegiance test; loyalty test
to be stripped of all one's clothes; to lose everything one has
nation at war; militant nation
to concern; to be related
to redeem debts (e.g. of a geisha)
criminal; culprit; offender; rogue
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
person who poses a high risk
sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca); Egyptian cucumber; loofah; loofa; something useless
to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce
difficult to be (in a place); not feeling like staying
to talk the night away; to talk all night
to bend a bow; to shoot an arrow; to rise up against; to rebel against