to be bewildered; to be perplexed
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
cupboard; locker; closet; wardrobe; cabinet
wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)
locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors
open air; outdoors; outside
counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.
locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors
storage room; storeroom; closet; grayish blue
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
detached house; stand-alone house; single-family home
sliding door (esp. when removed from its frame and used for carrying things or people); large flounder
true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo
slatted shutter; louver door (window)
content-free chat; idle gossip
Seto Inland Sea; Inland Sea
non-drinker; someone who cannot drink
window screen; insect screen; mosquito screen; screen; screen door
Edo shogunate (1603-1867)
rogue; thug; hoodlum; punk; racketeer
earthenware; porcelain; china; pottery; crockery
merry drinker; one who laughs easily
official copy of the family register
main door at the front of a house; front shutters
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
to open the door (to the world, women, etc.)
houses and inhabitants; population
(heavy) drinker; tippler; ... drinker (e.g. merry drinker, maudlin drinker); ... drunk; liker of; fan
maudlin drinker; person who is prone to crying when drunk
(separate) house; detached house
number of households (houses)
Gate of the Celestial Rock Cave
well digging; well digger
box (built-in) for containing shutters
garden gate made of branches and twigs; wicket gate
doors and shoji (sliding doors with paper panes)
gate money; admission fee
true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo
not in the family register; lacking a family register
a well equipped with a pulley for drawing water
air-damper (e.g. in chimney); (arch.) wind door; (arch.) door through which wind blows, e.g. to cool a room
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern
(pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home; door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace
true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo
family registry (of the district); original of one's family register; archive of family registers
to bust down a door; to break a door open
small cupboard on wall of tokonoma
garden gate made of branches and twigs; wicket gate
to close the door (to); to shut the door (to); to exclude
dwelling unit (esp. in apartment block, etc.)
gap (in a mountain ridge)
door-to-door visit; door-to-door canvassing (canvasing)
official copy of part of family register
family registration official
type of faceted glass from Edo
gravity well (e.g. of a planet)
latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture)
Little Edo; town or neighbourhood with an old townscape reminiscent of Edo
bluish-violet; royal purple
grayish blue; greyish blue
breakwater; seawall; bulwark; mole; narrow stone structure for breaking incoming waves and loading goods on and off ships
Imado (part of Edo) unglazed porcelain; Imado ware
one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register
bamboo door; door or screen made of fine bamboo strips, allowing air to pass through
true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo
to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)
paper sliding door for the cupboard of a tokonoma
house-to-house; door-to-door; each house
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
widespread fires in Edo (often after earthquakes); (lit.) flowers of Edo
eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld)
true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo
bamboo door; door or screen made of fine bamboo strips, allowing air to pass through
artesian well; tapped well
national census; door-to-door census
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest; (lit.) to attack the Edo enemy in Nagasaki
earthenware; porcelain; china; pottery; crockery
push-up door; roll-up shutter
ruffian; scoundrel; rogue; rascal; villain; hoodlum
door made of interlaced reeds, bamboo, etc.
(separate) house; detached house
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier
doorstop; door stop; door stopper
semi-detached house; double house
trapdoor; trap door; flap door
you can't control what people say; you can't stop rumours (rumors)
fires and fistfights are the flowers of Edo
to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest; (lit.) to attack the Edo enemy in Nagasaki
census-taking; examining family registers
small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage; small garden gate
ceramic ware from Seto (Aichi Prefecture)
double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)
semi-detached house; double house
standard measurement for the distance between pillars in eastern Japan (approx. 182 cm); Kanto-size tatami mat (approx. 176 cm by 88 cm)
sash roller; door roller; roller for a sliding door
door made of one or several wooden planks and no door framework
push-up door; roll-up shutter
artesian well; tapped well
the economic boom of 1958-1961
tradesman (in the ritsuryō system)
extremely heavy drinker; insatiable drinker
stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side; rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.
garden gate made of branches and twigs; wicket gate
have a pass to; have access to
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
ceramic ware from Seto (Aichi Prefecture)
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
swinging door; double action door
type of faceted glass from Edo
rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)
small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage; small garden gate
Edo chrysanthemum; variety of chrysanthemum originally cultivated in Edo; China aster (Callistephus chinensis)
Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji)
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae); folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)
top-hinged window shutter (often held open with a pole)
wharf; quay; landing-stage; jetty
detached house; stand-alone house; single-family home
houses and inhabitants; population
houses and inhabitants; population
maudlin drinker; person who is prone to crying when drunk
extensions on the top and bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge)
gap (in a mountain ridge)
doorstop; door stop; door stopper
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest; (lit.) to attack the Edo enemy in Nagasaki
artesian well; tapped well
door made of interlaced reeds, bamboo, etc.
trapdoor; trap door; flap door
trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae); folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)
fireweed (Erechtites hieracifolia); burnweed; pilewort
Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji)
top-hinged window shutter (often held open with a pole)
unsold apartment (usu. newly built); remaining apartments (unsold)
door (with a pivot hinge)
person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well; person who can drink much alcohol without becoming tipsy
original source of re-established family register; old family register
Iris ensata; Edo Japanese iris
batten door; battened door; ledged door; strong door with crosspieces placed on the reverse side
type of public bath from the Edo period
runner (of a sliding door); tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
household with at least one member subject to taxation (ritsuryo system)
en plein air; plein air painting
climate of the Setouchi Region
Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)
Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)
even an unruly horse can be tamed
even an unruly horse can be tamed
eating a lot, drinking a lot, and on top of that, eating mochi
don't act all high and mighty just because you don't drink; (lit.) no teetotaler has (ever) built a storehouse
don't act all high and mighty just because you don't drink; (lit.) no teetotaler has (ever) built a storehouse
a teetotaler doesn't know (how tasty) water is when waking up after having been drunk
drinkers drink too much (and harm themselves in the process), nondrinkers drink too little (and miss out on the medicinal benefits of alcohol)
everyone drinks at least a little bit; (lit.) ghosts and non-drinkers do not exist
everyone drinks at least a little bit; (lit.) ghosts and non-drinkers do not exist
sharpnose sevengill shark (Heptranchias perlo)
Solanum lyratum (species of nightshade)
Sebastes joyneri (genus of fish); rockfish
Sebastes joyneri (genus of fish); rockfish
Sebastes joyneri (genus of fish); rockfish
Japanese mole (Mogera wogura); Temminck's mole
Japanese foxtail (Alopecurus japonicus)
Japanese foxtail (Alopecurus japonicus)
liker of; fan; enthusiast; -phile