lowly people (Edo period); eta
town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)
car; automobile; vehicle; wheel; castor; caster
(traffic) congestion; traffic jam; gridlock; delay; stagnation
to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct
distance; range; difference (e.g. in opinion); gap; metric
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
to pin (someone) down; to hold down; to shut out (one's opponent); to keep (the opposing team) from scoring; to suppress; to control
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
Ochanomizu (Tokyo district); Ochanomizu (Kyogen play)
to make good one's escape; to get away; to outrun; to hold on (and win); to win narrowly
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure
river; stream; River; the ... river
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
to run; to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to rush (to); to dash; to retreat; to flee
to fall; to drop; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to be inferior (to)
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
on the water; aquatic; waterside; water's edge
diving; submerging; going underwater
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert; quarantine
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
(criminal) investigation headquarters
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
husband and wife; married couple
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it