transport; transportation; conveyance; carriage
beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully
sunset; sundown; end; close; year-end; end of the year
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
as (for); for; in the capacity of
delightful; joyous; joyful; happy; desirable; welcome
correspondence; news; letter; tidings
visit; call; arrival (e.g. of spring); advent; news; tidings
household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband
kindness; intimacy; friendship
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
old man; venerable gentleman; venerable; old; father
with these words; while saying
understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
dyeing; dyed goods; goods to be dyed
(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house; reputation (of a store); good name; goodwill
quiet; silent; slow; unhurried; calm; peaceful
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
overbearing; unstable wrestling stance
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store
employee (of a store); shop assistant; clerk; salesperson
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
kanji "strike" radical at right (radical 66)
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
early on; earlier on; from early
reverence for the emperor; advocate of imperial rule
will; resolution; kindness; goodwill; gift (as a token of gratitude)
waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation
kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work
to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)