returning from abroad; coming back to one's country (Japan)
10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication
dreadful; terrible; horrible; fearsome; formidable; awesome
midsummer; height of summer
chill; the shivers; shivering fit; cold; coldness; cold air
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)
Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
Bon festival; Feast of Lanterns
to become frosted; to become frosty
arrogant; haughty; calm; placid
sudden rise; sharp rise; boom; skyrocketing
highest price; price ceiling
lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
to abolish; to abandon; to repeal; to dethrone; to depose
drinking party; banquet; feast
poverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress
irregular; unseasonable; changeable; unsettled; abnormal
starvation; famine; hunger
decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
good citizens; law-abiding people
wife and children; (arch.) wife
trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
wandering; rambling; roaming
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
conspirators; faction; cabal; clique
using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
blackmail; extortion; persistent demand
grand; luxurious; lavish; great; large; big (e.g. storm)