important; significant; precious; valuable; careful
not a little; not a few; considerable
if it is the case that ...
what's the best thing to do?; what to do?
grudge; malice; intention; disposition; obstinacy; reason
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at
to paste; to stick; to affix; to station; to post
to manage; to settle; to dispose of; to deal with; to arrange
four; four years of age; ten o'clock (old time system); Burakumin; cross grips
main door at the front of a house; front shutters
village headman (esp. in the Kanto region)
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.)
shop selling picture books, wood prints, etc.
Wakasa (former province located in the south of present-day Fukui Prefecture)
assisting town official (Edo period)
receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me
hamachi; young Japanese amberjack; young yellowtail
certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
government housing for officials
asking; enquiring; searching; looking for
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
concentricity; same mind; unanimity; policeman; constable in the Edo period
to call in; to invite; to bring in
to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect
taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
second year of elementary school; second year elementary school student
green youth; immature youth; novice; greenhorn
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
contrary to one's expectations
due form; official; formality
petition; complaint; (legal) brief
to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
directions; instructions; orders; command