明治世相百話 – Vocabulary list

余よ年ねん

one's remaining years

1

実じつ業ぎょう家か

businessman; industrialist

1

橋はし本もと雅が邦ほう

Hashimoto Gahou

1

一いっ双そう

pair (esp. of folding screens)

3

今いまさら

now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again

1

を介かいして

using as an intermediary; through

1

追つい加か

addition; supplement; appending; appendix

2

申もうし込こむ

to apply for; to make an application; to propose (marriage); to offer (mediation); to make an overture (of peace); to challenge

1

墨ぼく画が

India-ink drawing

4

描かき上あげる

to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out

2

届とどける

to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)

1

依い頼らい者しゃ

client; requester

1

礼れい金きん

money (given as thanks); reward money; fee; key money; fee paid for rental rights

1

頑がんとして

firmly, stubbornly

1

幽ゆう谷こく

deep ravine; glen

1

玉ぎょく章しょう

your letter; excellent composition

2

どんな

what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any

1

零れい

zero; nought

1

あなた

you; dear; honey

2

に対たいする

regarding; in; to; towards; with regards to

1

報ほう酬しゅう

remuneration; recompense; reward; toll

1

絢けん爛らん

gorgeous; brilliant; dazzling; ornate; gaudy; flowery

2

満まん山ざん

the whole mountain; all the mountains

1

感かん慨がい無む量りょう

deep emotion; being filled with emotion

2

一いっ家かを成なす

to establish a school of; to make a home of one's own

1

銅どう賞しょう

bronze (third-place) prize

1

銀ぎん牌ぱい

silver medal; silver badge

1

生せい計けい

livelihood; living

1

家や賃ちん

rent

1

名めい人じん気か質たぎ

artist's temperament; master's temperament

1

舞ぶ楽がく面めん

mask worn by a bugaku dancer

1

捉とらわれる

to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to

1

超ちょう然ぜん

detached; aloof; indifferent

1

没ぼっ頭とう

immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to

1

日にち蓮れん

Nichiren; Nichiren (Buddhist priest, 1222-82, founder of the Nichiren sect)

1

竹たけ内のうち久ひさ一かず

Takenouchi Hisakazu

1

見み栄え

show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture

1

超ちょう越えつ

transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above

1

むきだす

to show; to bare (the teeth)

1

老ろう爺や

old man

1

小こ男おとこ

small man

1

無ぶ精しょう髭ひげ

stubble; unshaven face; beard one has because one is too lazy to shave; 5-o'clock shadow

1

もじゃもじゃ

tousled; shaggy (hair); scraggly (beard); dishevelled; disheveled; unkempt

1

喫きっ驚きょう

surprise

1

威い勢せいがいい

vigorous; cheerful; assertive

1

わき目めもふらず

without looking aside; looking neither right nor left; wholeheartedly; single-mindedly

1

倶ク楽ラ部ブ

club; fraternity; sorority; clubhouse

1

聖しょう徳とく太たい子し

Shōtoku Taishi (574CE-627CE); Prince Shōtoku

1

太たい子し

crown prince; Prince Shōtoku

1

開かい眼がん

enlightenment; spiritual awakening; opening one's eyes to the truth; gaining eyesight; restoring eyesight; opening the eyes

2

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Vocabulary list: 明治世相百話