Vocabulary: 草枕
- research institute; academy
- scholar; academician; fellow (of an academy)
- watercolor
- first; most important; primary; foremost
- colleges and universities
- to grasp; to hold; to operate; to manage; to control; to steer; to exercise; to drill (practice); to play; to speak (a language)
- cannot bear to see; to hate; to dislike; to disapprove
- waterfall
- to kill oneself; to commit suicide; to attempt suicide
- posthumous writing; testament; suicide note; ancient literature
- back of the head
- head
- to have direct light blocked; to face away from the light source; (electronics) backlight
- Kumamoto (prefecture and city in Japan)
- to remain silent; to have nothing to say
- old verse; Classical Chinese poem
- letter; mail; CL:封[feng1]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random
- base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental
- to become a member; to join; to mix into; to participate in; to add in
- to shelter; to protect; to provide refuge; (law) asylum
- to develop and promote; to carry forward; to bring to great height of development
- rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
- train station
- pedestrian; walker; itinerant monk
- to look after; to provide for
- luggage; CL:件[jian4]
- need not; not obliged to; not necessarily
- to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future; to ponder over reasons and connection
- the bow or prow of a ship
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- alone; by oneself; on one's own
- country; nation; state
- to lift (a lid); to rock; to convulse
- beard; whiskers
- not in the least concerned (idiom); reckless; couldn't give a damn about it; unperturbed; couldn't care less; harum scarum
- weaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield; to rely on; to depend on; war; battle
- regardless of the consequences; recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast