raspberry (any plant of genus Rubus, esp. Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus)
Sado (former province located on Sado Island in present-day Niigata Prefecture); Sado (island, Niigata Prefecture)
rain dragon; mythical beast with yellowish green skin and red tail
wanderer; traveller; traveler
breaks and pauses (in a sentence); punctuation; way of reading (esp. kanbun)
woman textile worker; Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
rotting; spoiling; decaying; rotten; worthless; paltry
corridor; gallery; platform; passageway
the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
out of the blue; all of a sudden; without warning; unexpectedly
happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
modern language; contemporary language; living language; modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken since the Meiji period or alternatively, since the end of World War II
skateboard; skateboarding
purification ceremony (performed with water); ritual purification; ablutions
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh
(you) couldn't kill (him) if you tried
opposite; reverse; contrary
extinguishment; destruction; effacement
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)
decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; obscure, meaningless life (metaphor)
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
woman textile worker; Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
being taken aback; state of shock; dumbfoundedness
subtleties; niceties; fine points; subtle; sensitive