Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray
superstitious person; practical joker; peddler; itinerant salesman
having leaves and branches loaded with snow; snow guard (to prevent snow from sliding off of a roof); snow stop
drawing red lines; red lines on maps marking town limits (Edo period); (arch.) red lines marking nouns in kanbun texts
unrequited love; illicit love; secret affections
learning good manners through apprenticeship (to an upper-class family)
maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period)
wrong idea; delusion; indiscretion; false step; misstep
rival in (the game of) go
another day; the next day
innocent girl; naive girl; virgin
to spread word of; to trumpet; to bruit
next year; following year
a hundred lashes; a hundred strokes
counting on the abacus; cost-benefit calculation; profit calculation
display of dolls during Hinamatsuri; Hinamatsuri (March 3); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival
one hundred famous mountains (of Japan)
adopted child; foster child
thing; person; situation; fox
to manage (to do successfully); to get through
acting as go-between; good offices
to help up; to pick up; to bring safely to land
fashionable thing; popular thing; craze
nobody can win against advancing age
to ask elsewhere; to try another (store, service, etc.)
to become free; to get time off
to engage in prostitution
to stab; to thrust (into); to plant (in the ground); to stick upright
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; interference; officiousness
to encourage to do (something); to urge a person on; to demand action; to spank; to give a spanking; to hit someone on the bottom
personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character
escape from evil; exorcism
shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate