(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
15th day of the 7th lunar month; (last day of) Bon lantern festival; mid-year gift; summer gift; Bon Festival gifts
parting; separation; farewell
Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
shaking (something) out; starting point; beginning; drawing (e.g. of a bill); issue; throw (of dice); infusion (remedy)
lodging; relay station; post town; constellation; mansion (in Chinese astronomy)
average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop
traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist
bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida); calabash; moonflower (Ipomoea alba)
sprinkling water (to keep down dust, cool pavements, etc.)
needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics
nembutsu; nenbutsu; nianfo; visualizing a Buddha (in one's mind)
signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)
T-shaped wooden bell hammer
Otsu-e; Edo-period folk art genre of painting originating in Ōtsu
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
greenhouse; icehouse; cellar
violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
paint; coloring materials; colors; colours
tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko; tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle)
to hit (a person); to strike; to beat; to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)
glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination
door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity
weariness (from); fatigue; tiredness; exhaustion
to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on; to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to
to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward
painter; artist; painter supported by patron
staringly; scrutinizing; scrutinising
... is the reason; ... is my excuse
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately
to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on; to take advantage of; to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence); to depend on