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02:47 - The collapse of Bunmei: Bunmei means civilization, so this title also means 'The Collapse of Civilization'. It could also be Bunmei's Cave In, in reference to Bunmei's character development and the setting of the episode.
04:08 - tōdaimotokurashi: This is an expression literally meaning, "It's always darkest just beneath the lighthouse" to imply that something was "right under our noses".
04:44 - Minakami Shrine: Many shrines around the mountain base in Minakamiyama are known as Minakami Shrines.
06:13 - Poésie de Glamour: French for 'Poems of Love'.
06:53 - Matsushiro Earthquake Swarm - Earthquake swarms are events where a local area experiences sequences of many earthquakes striking in a relatively short period of time. The Matsushiro Earthquake swarm was a sequence of 700,000 earthquakes that occurred in Matsushiro, Nagano, Japan, from 1965 through 1967.
Source: The Matsushiro Earthquake Swarm. (by Frederic Cappa, Jonny Rutqvist, Koji Yamamoto)
10.00+ (No exact time) - Yggdrasil - an immense tree that is central in Norse cosmology; the world tree, and around the tree exist nine worlds. It is generally considered to mean "Ygg's (Odin's) horse".
Source: Wikipedia
10:49 - Irminsul - (Old Saxon, probably "great/mighty pillar" or "arising pillar") was a kind of pillar which is attested as playing an important role in the Germanic paganism of the Saxon people. The oldest chronicle describing an Irminsul refers to it as a tree trunk erected in the open air.
Source: The Migration of Symbols. A. Constable and Co, 1891. (by D’Alviella, Eugene Goblet)
10:52 – Fusang - In Chinese mythology, Fusang refers to a divine tree in the East, from where the sun rises. A similar tree, known as Ruomu exists in the west, and each morning the sun was said to rise from Fusang and fall on Ruomu. Chinese legend has ten birds (typically ravens) living in the tree, and as nine rested, the tenth would carry the sun on its journey.
Source: Wikipedia
10:55 - Giant Tree in Japanese Mythology – mentioned in the “Kojiki”, or Record of Ancient Matters, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century and composed by Ō no Yasumaro by Imperial request. It was cut down and made into the ship “Karano”. When the ship became old, its hulk was burned down for salt, and a koto which “resounded over seven leagues” was made from the leftover wood.
Source: The Cambridge history of Japan: Heian Japan, Volume 2 (by Donald H. Shively, William H. McCullough, John Whitney Hall) and Wikipedia
14:31 - Racket money: "Protection" money extorted from the mafia.
16:00 - UMA: Unidentified mysterious animal.
24:05 - Nozue means treetop or tip of a branch, but we could also take this meaning as pinnacle. Thus the title of this ep could be, 'Pinnacle of Summer'.