greed; cruelty; callous; (arch.) insistent; (arch.) insistence
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt); cooking a fish inside a salt crust; candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)
flashiness; showiness; brilliance; bloom; flowers
ninth day of the month; nine days
just past noon; afternoon
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing
to ride into (a place); to drive into (a place)
one's last moment; one's death; one's end
on the sea; on the ocean; offshore
(ship or shipbuilding) timber or plank
raft; forearm protector; skewered baby-eel kabayaki
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
all for the best; what is right
gift; boon; (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)
to redeem; to take out of pawn; to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage (by paying off her debt to her employer)
marrying into the wife's family
wishes of a deceased person; dying wish
to change way one holds something; to transfer something from one hand to the other
riding ground; racecourse; racetrack
guardian deity of one's birthplace
superintendence; supervision; administration
Shinto priest; chief Shinto priest (of a shrine); Welsh onion; pun in Buddhist monk jargon
townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
reviewing stand; box; gallery
gorgeous; gaudy; dazzling; gay; resplendent
rough fence of bamboo, logs, etc. constructed at battle sites or execution grounds
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
long handle; long-handled spear; long shaft
accompanying; being in attendance on; inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall)