sake, Japanese rice wine

Japan Standard Time (JST)

Cervus nippon, commonly known as sika deer, spotted deer, or Japanese deer

Synonym of 梅

Kyūjitai form of 売春宿: brothel

first storm of spring

Wing Chun, a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense

Kyūjitai form of 売春婦: prostitute; whore

Empire of Japan (official name of Japan under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, 1890-1947)

“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds