worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; bunch (of grapes, bananas, etc.); cluster (of flowers); segment (of a tangerine, etc.); section
tatami-mat room rented out for meetings, meals, etc.; place for assignations; (Edo-period) brothel
Takasugi Shinsaku (1839.9.27-1867.5.17)
reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration
imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
kitchen door; back door; service door; host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room
leftover food; leftovers; food scraps
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
brown rat (Rattus norvegicus); common rat; dark grey (colour, color); dark gray; secret evil-doer
restlessly; aimlessly; to loiter; to drift; to be restless; to fuss
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
Taishō period (1912-1926); Taisho period
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
tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
management; administration; operation; running (business); conducting
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
particularly; only; in the case of
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre); music hall
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
such; this sort of; like this