criticism; critique; review; commentary
countryman; provincial; person from the country; provincial person; bumpkin; hick
to drive a bargain; to beat down the price; to haggle
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
provincial dialect; rural dialect
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
apparently; from what I have heard; they say; you know; I hear
role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
(your) daughter; young woman
one's employer's house; one's employer; place of apprenticeship
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
bundle; package; parcel; counter for wrapped objects
toddling; with small, quick steps; restlessly; in continuous motion; quickly and easily; often
the said family; the same family
before the gate; in front of the gate
fortress; castle; citadel; enclosure; castle walls
to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided
(United States of) America; USA
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
closely (packed, lined up, etc.); tightly; densely; (work) sufficiently
to look up at; to raise one's eyes; to look up to; to admire; to respect
straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware; Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
relief; embossed carving; bringing to the fore; throwing something into relief
to paste; to stick; to affix; to station; to post
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
just managing; with great difficulty
bell (used for summoning or signalling); buzzer
button (clothing); push-button
to find out; to discover; to detect
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
three sun (ca. 9.1 cm); something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun); stall-keeper; huckster; (arch.) prostitute of the lowest rank
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
accent (on a syllable, word); stress; intonation; inflection; (language) accent (e.g. American, British); accent (e.g. in a design)