muteness; speech impairment; mute; deaf-mute
push; pushing; weight; pressure; authority; forcefulness
one or two; a few; small number
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay
to hold all the while; to talk about nothing but
to come together; to join; to get married; to become a married couple
ritual visits to a temple
miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic
ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son
memorization; memorisation; learning by heart
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
sweetheart; person in one's thoughts (heart)
dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy
to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
(moral) conduct; behaviour; behavior; deportment
depravity; corruption; degradation
improper way (of doing); wrong way; unorthodox method; evil course; evil path; heresy
uncharacteristic; unbefitting; unworthy (of)
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
district of a town; city block (of irregular size)
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
kimono fabrics shop; draper
frontage; width (of a building, plot of land, etc.); breadth (e.g. of one's knowledge); scope (e.g. of one's work); range
possession; ownership; Tibet; Tibetan people
evident; plain; distinct; clear
informal summer clothes for men (short jacket and trousers)
great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique
to judge (on the basis of); to control; to discipline (oneself); to regulate
becoming a devout believer; (religious) conversion
twenty-first day of the month; twenty-one days
soba water; water left in the pot after one has boiled soba
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
powerfully; vigorously; with all one's strength; lots of; heaps of; plenty
slave trade; human trafficking; slave trader
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)