old imperial palace

fur coat made with white fur of fox armpits, which has been prized since ancient times

taking the afternoon off

試行錯誤: trial and error

cover / suffocate / obstruct

to degenerate / to descend to / to lapse into

a coach (trainer)

gochujang (Korean chili paste)

gochutgaru (Korean red pepper powder)

The hiragana syllable ち (chi). Its equivalent in katakana is チ (chi). It is the seventeenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is た行い段 (ta-gyō i-dan, “row ta, section i”).