one-by-one; separately; in detail
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
woman peddler in Kyoto from Ohara (typically with a bundle of sticks, etc. on her head)
to be famous; to be well-known
cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end
locational advantage; advantageous position; products from the land (farm output, timber, minerals, etc.); land rent
convention; usage; old customs; old etiquette
liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
sakiori; rag weaving; cloth woven partly from strips of old cloth
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); to spare (time, money, etc.)
used item; secondhand item; old; used; previous
to weave into; to interweave; to be incorporated in; to be factored in
reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight
futon or cloth attached to the kotatsu's frame; cover for kotatsu
one color; one colour; one article; same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing
especially; above all; inter alia; among others
but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just
Shinano (former province located in present-day Nagano Prefecture and parts of Gifu Prefecture)
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
sunken hearth; sunken fireplace
to cover a surface; to spread all over; to blanket; to lay
de facto marriage; common-law marriage
in the end; on top of that
Aomori (city, prefecture)
Tsugaru (Western region of Aomori Prefecture)