meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
hakama; man's formal divided skirt
please; somehow or other; one way or another
to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)
janitor; caretaker; custodian; (slighting reference to a) handyman
to be taught; to learn; to take lessons in
former years; formerly; a few years ago
Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)
Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)
fold; pleat; folds (e.g. of a mountain); crease; (hidden) detail; nuance
mountain villa; house in the mountains; mountain retreat
hard to reach place; remote place
illicit manufacturing; illicit distilling; moonshining
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
rope; cord; line; grand champion's braided belt
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
outsider; layman; amateur
remote mountain; mountain recesses
repetitious; long-winded; heavy (taste); (overly) rich; gaudy (colour, design, etc.); loud
to sink; to go down; to pass away; to die; to disappear; to vanish
future; prospects; outlook; journey ahead; distance yet to cover
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
hand salute; military salute
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally
potato (Solanum tuberosum)
tightly (packed); densely; closely; crammed
original document (not a copy or adaptation); book in its original language (esp. a European language)
back of a leatherbound book
evening; sunset; nightfall
dark blue ground; dark blue cloth
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus