bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
older sister; elder sister
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
seven; seven years of age; four o'clock (old time system)
eight; eight years of age; two o'clock (old time system)
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows
later on; subsequently; by and by; after a while
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
The Bathhouse of the Floating World (humorous book by Shikitei Sanba)
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
ten; 10; ten years of age
sweet flag (Acorus calamus); calamus; Japanese iris (Iris ensata var. ensata)
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
nervousness; oversensitivity
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of
steam bath; hot water bath
low door used in bathhouses to prevent the hot water from cooling (Edo period)
dense (e.g. fog, dust, etc.); thick; vague (as in being unable to think clearly); dim
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet