thousands of years; eternity; all generations
harsh tasting; strongly alkaline tasting; excessively strong-willed; fiercely individualistic; strongly idiosyncratic
to be tormented (by dreams); to have a nightmare
worldly affairs; public affairs
wastepaper; scrap of paper; paper scraps
artist; painter; illustrator
small gate in a mud or stone wall
attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
built in a night; stopgap; hastily written
imperial chrysanthemum crest; imperial seal of Japan
true bristletail (any insect of order Thysanura, esp. of family Lepismatidae); Oriental silverfish (Ctenolepisma villosa); someone who is unable to apply what they have read
code of morals; moral principles