妾の半生涯 – Vocabulary list

不ふ人にん情じょう

unkindness; inhumanity; heartlessness

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柳やなぎ

willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica)

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ヤナ

(fish) weir; fish trap

1

大おお阪さか事じ件けん

Osaka Incident (plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising; 1885)

2

芝しば居い

play; drama

3

開かい場じょう

opening (the doors to an event, etc.); inauguration

1

技ぎ芸げい

arts; crafts; handicrafts

1

しぐさ

gesture; movement; action; acting; performance

1

せりふ

speech; words; one's lines; remarks

1

全ぜん然ぜん

(not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly; entirely; extremely; very

1

価あたい

price; cost; value; worth; value

1

あたし

I; me

1

なきもの

dead person

4

子し女じょ

sons and daughters; children; girl

1

場じょう内ない

in-house; (on) the grounds; (in) the premises; hall; theatre; theater

1

余よ地ち

place; room; margin; scope

2

盛せい況きょう

success; prosperity; boom

1

かならずや

certainly; surely; definitely

1

興こう業ぎょう

promotion of industry; inauguration of a new industrial enterprise

2

川かわ上かみ

upper reaches of a river; upstream

6

重かさなる

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

1

講こう談だん

storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story

1

叮てい嚀ねい

polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough

1

小こ

small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow

1

こも

woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)

1

引ひき幕まく

draw curtain; stage curtain

3

講こう演えん

lecture; address; speech

1

幕まく

curtain; bunting; act (in play)

1

姉あね

older sister; elder sister

2

記き入にゅう

entry (in a form, register, diary, etc.); filling in; filling out

1

表ひょう面めん上じょう

on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently

1

ものとする

shall ...; to assume; to suppose

1

性せい行こう

character and conduct

1

成せい功こう

success; hit

4

まさか

by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being

1

駒こま

piece (in shogi, chess, etc.); (arch.) horse; (arch.) foal; bridge (of a violin, etc.)

1

しんこ

pickled vegetables; pickles

1

家か橘きつ

Kakitsu

1

打だ破は

breaking down; defeating; abolishing

1

形けい勢せい

condition; situation; prospects

1

署しょ名めい

signature

1

激げっ昂こう

excitement; exasperation; indignation; rage; fury

2

げっこう

moonlight; moonbeam

2

即そく日じつ

(on) the same day

1

四よ年ねん

four years

3

本ほん郷ごう

one's hometown

2

通つう行こう

passage (of people, traffic); passing; common usage

1

ぬく

to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)

1

印しるし半ばん天てん

livery coat

2

着きせる

to put clothes on (someone); to dress; to cover; to coat; to pin (e.g. a crime on someone); to lay (blame)

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Vocabulary list: 妾の半生涯