to mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to tweet (Twitter)
myself; yourself; I; me; you
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
details; particulars; whole story; sequence of events; chronology; circumstances
quiet; silent; slow; unhurried; calm; peaceful
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
800; eight hundred; multitude; large number
shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
(government) inspector-general (Edo period); upper superintendent officer
clerk; secretary; scribe; copyist
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
older brother; elder brother
son-in-law taken (adopted) into family
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
hill; height; knoll; rising ground
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
adopted child (usu. male); son-in-law
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
death from disease; death from illness
coincident with; while; simultaneously
taking turns on duty (esp. daimyo's retainers on duty in Edo)
to order; to command; to appoint
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
frequently; repeatedly; eagerly; keenly; hard; terribly
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
to comfort; to console; to amuse
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop