love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
passing; (person) who happens to pass by; (place) that one happens to pass by; casual (e.g. romance); momentary
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
the person heretofore mentioned; that person
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
to print; to color or pattern fabric using a wooden mold
to touch (a person's) heart; to impress (a person)
both sides; two sides; double-sided
with one's own body; by one's own action; through one's own experience; firsthand
the truth; fact; as it is; as you are; frank; bare plain
sincere; earnest; serious
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
versification; verse making
cultivation of aesthetic sensibility; education in good taste
impossible; unlikely; improbable
poetry and prose; literature; literary works
to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose
Kitamura Toukoku (1868-1894)
revival; restoration; resuscitation
town girl; girl raised in a town
young literary enthusiast
recitation; reciting from memory
the same grade; same class
high rice field; very fertile rice field
seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways
paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa); empress tree; foxglove tree
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
very; much; greatly; a lot of