gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
flashiness; showiness; brilliance; bloom; flowers
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
tiered doll stand (for hina dolls); tiered platform; tiered gallery
cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
outdoors; outside; open air; fields; outskirts; suburbs
Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)
along the river; riverside
on this occasion; now; in these circumstances; with this opportunity
in good health; healthy; skilled; proficient; master; expert
to swipe; to nick; to pilfer; to steal
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
care; precaution; guarding; caution
had better ...; had better not ...
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
young person; youth; young
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
to be intimate with; to befriend
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort
fruit(s) and vegetables; produce
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
thought; report on one's investigation into ...; deceased father
Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern
rural local self-government (Muromachi period)
jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
beautiful; good; excellent
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
prince; subordinate Kumano shrine
heavenly god; heavenly gods; spirit of Sugawara no Michizane; Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit); pit of a dried plum; dried plum; tenjin hairstyle