to experience (something unpleasant); to go through; to suffer
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence; pretense; (a customer) coming to restaurant, ryokan, etc. without a reservation or introduction
basket; basketball; basket cloth
to live (in the house of one's employer, teacher, etc.); to live in; to become a live-in employee; to become a resident (of an institution)
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
ten (long cylindrical things)
yatsuhashi; cinnamon-seasoned rice flour cracknel (local delicacy in Kyoto); zigzag bridge
heap; pile; stack; full measure
wherein; therein; thereinto; among which
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
what with A and B; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; denotes uncertainty
subordinate work; assistant; domestic duties; servant; maid
maid-in-waiting in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)
Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures); Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)
mentality; mood; sentiment; fretfulness; tedium; irritation
to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard); to work someone hard; to masturbate
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
(giving) birth; childbirth; delivery
to lose heart; to lose interest; to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose focus; to let one's guard down
main door at the front of a house; front shutters
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist
easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.); easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)
to pity; to sympathize with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to appreciate; to recognize (someone's efforts)
(doing) together; one lump; one mixture; the same; identical; (at) the same time
pillow with a box-shaped wooden base
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)
leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row
long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono; under-kimono