gate; door; house; family
fellow women; between women; among women; woman-to-woman
live decoy (for hunting); decoy; bait; lure
successfully; fairly; artfully; nicely; completely; thoroughly
to escape from; to get out
tiger's den; jaws of death; dangerous place
for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion
earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate
wicked person; evil person; bad child; naughty child; bad thing; mischief
virtue; moral sense; conscience
battle; war; fight (against time, poverty, etc.); struggle (for freedom, survival, etc.); contest; competition
environment; surroundings; circumstances
person always at one's side
visit; call; arrival (e.g. of spring); advent; news; tidings
high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous
tuna (Thunnus spp.; esp. the Pacific bluefin); dead fish (person who is unresponsive or passive during sex); starfish; body of a person struck by a train; person unconscious due to alcohol
cherry anthias (Sacura margaritacea)
parading of portable shrines and floats at Shinto festivals
subordinate; secondary; junior; incidental
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized
driving off birds; procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house; female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen; street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara; Edo period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank)
warp; curvature; bend; curve (of a sword)
coating (esp. lacquering)
traditional married woman's hair style with an oval chignon on top; type of men's hairstyle during the Edo period
dawn; daybreak; beginning
to mistake (for something or someone else); to be unable to recognize
metamorphosis; disguise; transformation; shapeshifting; morphing
kite shaped like an Edo-period footman
slip of paper with a fortune-telling message; street fortune-teller
to remove; to clear away; to except from; to make an exception of; to lay aside; to set aside
rare; strange; odd; peculiar
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
on the least pretext; at every opportunity; whenever there is a chance; at the drop of a hat
one's heart; the mind; inner feelings; inmost thoughts; true motives
to blunder; to fail; to make a mistake; to miss
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others
puffer fish; blow fish; fugu; globefish; swellfish