luminous body (e.g. of a shooting star); bright metal; sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.); 20-point card; bright
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning
race (of people); type of person
(not) even when using ...; (not) even with the help of ...; (not) even by ...
ingenuity; resourcefulness
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
chief retainer; daimyo's minister
other party; other side; ahead; in front; destination
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); to spare (time, money, etc.)
magistrate; shogunate administrator
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
Yamashiro (former province located in the south of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
cold wind; chilly breeze; (blast of) cold air
description of regional climate, culture, etc.
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
acquaintance; friend; (arch.) lover
top; summit; twelve o'clock (usu. midnight); top of one's head; top of a helmet
all over the body; from head to foot; all over
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
to swell; to become swollen; to become puffy (e.g. face from lack of sleep); to become bloated (esp. from fluid retention)
little finger; pinky; little toe
ring finger; third finger; fourth finger (in piano-playing); fourth toe
hook; hook bracket (Japanese quotation mark)
slimy; slippery; (arch.) (moving) slowly
to congratulate; to celebrate
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
marriage ceremony; wedding
halo; aureole; aureola; halo (optical phenomenon); glory
to fall forward (of a person); to tumble forward
cordiality; attentiveness; politeness
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
to point (gun at); to hold under one's nose
ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon
(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
collar; lapel; neckband; nape of the neck; scruff of the neck
gleaming; shining; glistening