Meanings

textile weave

if you can't beat them; join them

if you can't beat them; join them

collection of short Heian-period tales in the form of poems

stigmatized property

ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism)

materialism

man is the measure of all things

open-chain compound

cyclic compound

things that come together can also come apart

things that come together can also come apart

fruit of one's labor

buy nice or buy twice

buy nice or buy twice

treating (someone) like an object

something to wear

one's only good set of clothes (suit, kimono, etc.)

wistful

benthic animal