fop; swell; dude; coxcomb; vain person
last line of a poem; finally
sales clerk (in a merchant house, ranking between the head clerk and an apprentice); shopman; shop assistant
period; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi; Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)
(passenger) fare; freight rates; shipping expenses
younger people; future generations
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
helper; assistant; help; assistance
stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
plan; scheme; stratagem; trick; trap; plot
careful; scrupulous; thorough; conscientious; elaborate; deliberate
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
impertinent; saucy; cheeky; impudent; audacious; cocky
a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
to appear uncomfortable (with); to seem to hate; to express dislike
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour
servant (esp. a samurai's attendant); chivalrous man (Edo period); cubed tofu (often served cold); kite shaped like an Edo-period footman; Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants; enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime); (arch.) he
former; ex-; earlier times; the past; formerly; previously
to visit and comfort or console; to go to see (e.g. someone in hospital); to ask after (e.g. someone's health); to attack; to hit; to strike
one or two; a couple; a few; first and second (place); the top two
to go (to); to make one's way (to); to visit
secret meeting; clandestine meeting
north of the capital; northern part of Kyoto
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
haikai (collective name for haiku, haibun, haiga, senryū, etc.); haikai no renga (humorous, often vulgar style of renga which emerged in the 16th century); absurd; comical
gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi
hokora; small wayside shrine
temple's territory; temple's estate
to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)