request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
townsman; townswoman; resident of a town; townspeople; townsfolk
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
(period of) a year; during the era (of)
temple hall with a Kshitigarbha (Jizō) image
dedication; offering; presentation; oblation
front; frontage; facade; main
right hand; right-hand side; right-hand direction; (on) the right
colouring; coloring; colouration; coloration; painting
votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse
puerperium; postpartum period; postnatal period; bed used by a woman in childbirth
to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
shoji (paper sliding door)
shadow picture; silhouette; shadowgraph
to grow horns; to sprout horns; to become angry; to become jealous
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember
bending; curving; warping (of feelings, logic, etc.); distortion; refraction; inflection
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
powerful local clan; local strongman
castle construction; building a castle; fortification
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
to be erected; to be built
guardian deity of seafaring; Kumbhira
public square; square; plaza; open space; clearing
every year; yearly; annually
business conditions; the market; good (economic) times; prosperity; liveliness; energy
sumo (wrestling); sumo wrestler; rikishi
show; performance; act; entertainment industry; show business
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
slab with a haiku cut on it
to take away; to carry away
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
wholesale store; wholesale dealer; wholesaler
studying under; looking up to; apprenticing oneself to