habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
custom; habit; customary practice
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
subordinate shrine; professional entertainer
promptly; immediately; quickly; indifferently
to stay at (e.g. hotel); to be docked; to be berthed; to be moored
equipment; device; installation; stage setting
what is called; what they call; so-called
lack of sleep; insufficient sleep
to throw; to toss; to hit; to strike; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles)
to bite off; to gnaw through
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically
punishment; judgement; judgment
arbor; arbour; bower; summer house; square gazebo
whole story; full picture; full particulars
concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial
cloth; fabric; dough; batter; inherent quality; one's true character; unglazed pottery
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
same country; same province; the (said) country
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
certain; unmistaken; evident; obvious; beyond doubt
(one's) family; dependents; household; follower; retainer; underling
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
to be congenial; to agree with one; to be in one's nature
characteristic quality; special character; one's function; one's duty; fief; inherited estate
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
narrow-minded; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; unreasonable; warped
to forget completely; to leave behind
deploring the course of public events
power; might; authority; spirits; vigor; vigour