narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
farm house; country cottage
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
children; sons; (lit.) children and younger brothers; young people
to collect; to assemble; to gather
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
Island; insula; island; islet
to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded
kaki; Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
snell (fishing); leader; trace; cast
basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market
anchorage; anchoring; mooring
heaven and earth; the universe; top and bottom; gods of heaven and earth
being very surprised; being utterly astonished; being shocked
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
at that time; in those days
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
to supply (goods, money, etc.); to cover (costs); to pay; to give board; to provide meals
Edo-period business taxes
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
stage (theatre, theater); scene or setting (e.g. of novel, play, etc.)
siblings; brothers and sisters; brothers; siblings-in-law; brothers-in-law; mate
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
geta; Japanese wooden clogs; turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
to shake; to jolt; to rock; to swing
just above; right overhead
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on