cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.)
fifth day of the month; five days
bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki
Asahi Shimbun (newspaper)
Tensei Jingo; daily column in the Asahi Shimbun
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
Nagato (former province located in the west of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)
variant edition (of a book); alternative version; different manuscript; strange book; rare book; unique book
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
although I say; although one might say; although called
all kinds of things; various things; large number of people
putting into print; setting in type; printing; publishing
carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand
new edition; new compilation; new formation (of a force, unit, etc.); new organization
complete works; complete collection; complete series
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
circulation; dissemination
original text; source book; draft
large; large-sized; large-scale; big
(an) authority; (a) source; (written) reference
Kojien (Japanese dictionary published by Iwanami Shoten)
other than; except for; aside from; apart from; save for
Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari
to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)
entering the priesthood; priest; man with a shaven head; bald-headed monster
white clothes; white robe; white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.); commoner without rank (in ancient China); layperson
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
Heike family; Taira family
subjugation (using military force); suppression; subduing
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)
plot; conspiracy; conference
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
late at night; small hours of the morning
residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
anonymous report; (secret) information; tip-off; informing (against)
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)