again (and again); once again; yet again; (there you go) again
number one; first; best; most; game; round
cruel; merciless; pitiful; tragic; breaking a religious precept without shame
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
loss; defeat; counter for losses
shame; embarrassment; disgrace
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
pride; boast; credit (to)
to be full of pride; to be boastful
haughty; arrogant; pompous; self-important
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
behavior; behaviour; conduct; entertainment; treat; feast
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat
thoughtless; reckless; rash; excessive; unreasonable; immoderate
acid reflux; bile reflux; pyrosis; gloating; gratification; satisfaction
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
to cease; to stop; to be over
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
open; public; official; overt
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
in this way; thus; such; uh...
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
many regrets; much sadness; much resentment; much bitterness
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
storage room; storeroom; closet; grayish blue
head; hair (on one's head); mind; brains; leader; chief; top
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
top of ...; head of ...; the moment that ...
Japanese spindletree (Euonymus japonicus)
the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front