trouble; bother; annoyance
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
to be sorry; to beg someone's pardon; to be much obliged; to be grateful; to be amazed; to be greatly impressed
burning incense (before an altar, esp. in memory of the dead); offering incense
to leave; to withdraw; to appear before; to present oneself
formal; official; regular; proper; legal; due (formalities)
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
shallow; superficial; slight (wound); light (sleep); short (time); early
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
to open up (to someone); to become unreserved; to lower one's guard; to become friendly (with); to feel at ease; to take a relaxed attitude (to)
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
headquarters (on the battlefield); direct retainer of a shogun (Edo period); shogunal vassal; hatamoto
these days; nowadays; recently; lately
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...
second line of a four-line Chinese poem
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
machiya; traditional wooden townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
example; instance; precedent; custom; habit
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)
restlessly; aimlessly; to loiter; to drift; to be restless; to fuss
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
happiness; blessedness; proving fortunate; yielding positive outcome; luckily; fortunately
to come across; to happen upon
town-watches from the Edo period
thereupon; shortly thereafter
sanity; consciousness; soberness
to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate