to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
ten; 10; ten years of age
Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
reformatory; reform school
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character
boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
group of mountain nomads (in Japan); group of mountain people; the Sanka
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)
state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber
great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)
police; police officer; police station
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
to fit; to get into; to be fit for (a job, etc.); to be suited for; to fall into; to plunge into
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only
mountain recess; deep in the mountains
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
to have a talk; to tell a story
virtue; benevolence; profit; benefit
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
something like ...; something called ...
to use; to make use of; to utilize; to utilise
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on