gourmet food; delicious food; dining on gourmet food; following a lavish diet; living as an epicure
luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
himself; yourself; herself
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently
as the sound of surging water; vigorous; surging; welling
unbroken; endless; continuous
idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)
feeling keenly; fully realizing
how can (one) do something
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
to make war (on); to wage war (against); to compete (against); to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
mother's side of family; maternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death); five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
to be ruined (reduced to poverty); to fall low; to go under; to come to ruin
evening sky; twilight sky
to look up at; to raise one's eyes; to look up to; to admire; to respect
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
to rise up; to initiate (political) action
first of all; in the first place; to begin with; for starters
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent
government official; public official
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
a cut above the rest; superior; one field; one matter; suitably; reasonably
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
acquaintance; appreciative friend
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
frog; kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)
mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief
shellfish; seashell; shell
asafetida (Ferula assafoetida)