old age; old person; the old; the aged
plain; plateau; tableland
palanquin; litter; bier; portable shrine
lightly; easily; carelessly
exaggerated; bombastic; highly colored; highly coloured
to dispatch (someone); to send; to make go fast (a car, horse, etc.); to drive; to move quickly (one's pen, eyes, etc.); to run (one's eyes over something)
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
talking about (behind one's back); backbiting
sword fight scene choreographer
to clear away; to clear land; to prune; to lop off
Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person
walk; walking; (arch.) foot messenger (of a town, village, etc.)
suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
disused; unused; useless; wasteful; of no use
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
to work; to labor; to labour; to put to work; to make (someone) work
painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
to make do with; to manage with; to make shift; to get (something) done in time; to have ready (by)
approach (to a castle gate); front of a structural member
ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m); counter used to number the gaps between pillars
woman approaching middle age
shaft; axle; mandrel; arbor; centre of a group
being amazed; being horrified; being taken aback
mature woman; middle-aged woman
without (doing); instead of; if (it) isn't done; if (one) doesn't do ...; if not ...; unless ...
oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, etc. stewed in soy-flavored dashi
eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine
adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
to boil (something in hot water); to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.)
rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)
daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer
day laborer; day labourer; journeyman