salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
price; cost; value; worth; value
completely; absolutely; (not) at all; (not) a bit; earnestly; intently
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
stinging hair (of a nettle, caterpillar, etc.)
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
darn it!; darn!; oops!; oh dear!; oh no!
when; how soon; how long until
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
secret; private; surreptitious
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)
opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person
Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
construction worker; laborer (labourer); navvy
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
to be silent; to say nothing
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow (a person); to accompany; to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear
anger; rage; fury; wrath; indignation
to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil
wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
of course; certainly; naturally