peace of mind; relief; (sense of) security; safety; assurance; confidence
thank you (for your hard work); I appreciate your efforts
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he
to take good care of; to treasure; to value; to hold dear; to prize; to cherish
misedashi; debut of an apprentice geisha; ceremony in which a shikomi becomes a maiko
eldest daughter; first-born daughter
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
to differ (from); to be different; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to become abnormal; to go wrong
hat shop; hat store; hatter; hatmaker
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
myself; yourself; I; me; you
by myself; in person; by oneself
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
sorry; excuse me; thank you
to lock (a door, etc.); to lock up
cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
worthless; insignificant; unimportant; poor; miserable; wretched
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away
to compete (with each other); to contend for; to vie for; to rival
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
some nerve (as in "you have some nerve to ...")
curse; spell; malediction
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled (of an arrangement, conclusion, etc.)
to become confused (disconcerted, disorganized, disorganised); to be flustered; to panic; to hurry; to rush; to hasten
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all