event; festivities; function; social gathering; auspices; opening
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)
original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw
bento; Japanese box lunch
food packed in nest of lacquered boxes
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
rhyme; rhyme (of a Chinese character); rime
to be blurred (due to motion; of a photo, video, etc.); to be shaken (of a camera); to waver (in one's beliefs, policy, etc.); to shift (position); to be slightly off
self-respect; self-confidence; guts; backbone; pride; drive
childcare; child-rearing; nursing; upbringing
street at night; making a night journey
haikai; collective name for haiku, haibun, haiga, senryū, etc.; humorous or vulgar renga poetry
loitering; roaming; sauntering; wandering about; prowling
without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end
foreign; abroad; overseas
export; exportation; efferent
greed; worldly or materialistic desires
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
portable brush-and-ink case; quiver (archery)
first 17-syllable verse of a renga; haiku; first five-syllable line of a tanka
to write down; to make a note of; to put on record; to chronicle
insanity; insane person; arbiter of taste; connoisseur
queer fellow; odd fellow; eccentric person; crank; oddball; freak
unselfishness; wanting little
chivalrous spirit; chivalry
traveler; traveller; stranger
occasionally; now and then; from time to time
secondhand bookshop; secondhand bookstore; secondhand bookseller
moat; fosse; canal; ditch
to ask a high price; to overcharge
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
(Edo-period variety of) realistic literature; popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period
(arch.) eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); (arch.) eastern provinces; (arch.) east; wagon; yamatogoto; my spouse
nishiki-e; multi-colour woodblock print
brocade; fine dress; fine clothes
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
to sell off; to sell completely
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)