bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
(inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought)
how; in what way; how about
breathing; respiration; knack; trick; harmony; balance
staying at home or indoors; living in seclusion; retirement
form; shape; figure; visage
early on; earlier on; from early
eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
to leave behind; to put off; to postpone
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
erasure; denial; obliteration; ignoring (an opinion)
influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
conclusion; decision; judgement; affirmative
year of a person's death; one's age at death
death; the next world; to pass away; to die
this; our; the ... in question; right; justice; fairness
setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4), day of the bean scattering ceremony; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)
tool; implement; means; furniture
one's own convenience; one's way; surroundings; environment; convenience; ease of use; financial circumstances
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)
the same book; the said book; ibid.
jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)
destruction by fire; losing in a fire; being burnt down
samurai drill; knight errantry
middle palace guard (ritsuryo system)
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
through; by way of; after; via
half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%
divide into four pieces; one fourth
one-hundredth; 0.3 mm (one-hundredth of a sun); 0.1 percent (one-hundredth of a wari); rin (monetary unit; 0.001 yen)
center of a noh stage; Shōchū era (1324.12.9-1326.4.26)
edge; angle; ridge (e.g. of a mountain)
beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully
loquat (Eriobotrya japonica); Japanese medlar
same village; that village
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; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine