type of woman's hairdo (Edo period)
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
achievement; feat; meritorious deed; distinguished service
thickly; heavily; richly; severely; strongly
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
middle of the night; dead of night
vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
to recall; to remember; to recollect
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
indicates means of action; cause of effect; by
inner, astringent skin (of a chestnut)
to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)
wood grain; unpainted wood
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
brandling (when used as fishing bait)
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
main building (of a manor); central room (of a house)
very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly
dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
for the present; for the time being
(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture
to give up on; to turn one's back (on); to abandon; to forsake; to dump (e.g. romantic partner)
bedside; near one's pillow
slovenly; loose; sluttish; slatternly; untidy; undisciplined
sitting with one knee drawn up
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
not eating enough; unsatisfied; dissatisfied with; leaving something to be desired
to become greasy; to become oily; to be loud and garish
woman well past her prime; matron well-advanced in age
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty
something or other; this and that; one thing this, another thing that; blah blah blah
impudent; shameless; brazen
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)