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sly (cunning) old man

1

to ensconce oneself (e.g. in a chair); to settle oneself down; to plant oneself

1

Takuma

3

Kiichirō

1

chaperoning; monitoring someone's behaviour; watchdog; chaperone; watcher

1

Saemon

1

cleaning with a cloth (floors, etc.); dirty work; low-level work; apprentice work

1

Umekichi

1

puzzle; riddle

2

not knowing what's what; being unable to make heads or tails

1

Denji

2

(not) even for a moment

1

Edo-period gold mint

6

crescent shape

2

horseback archery

1

to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)

1

family crest

2

as of the end of (today, this month, etc.); to make (today, etc.) the last (day)

1

patterned cloth

1

everlasting spring

6

the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn); the seven days of the week

2

arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)

1

bribe; sweetener; douceur

1

well curb; well kerb; family crest design based on a square wooden well curb

1

relative

1

black-bellied plover; grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)

2

politics

1

all-you-can-eat

1

treasure house; treasury; financial supporter; patron; financier

1

probationer

10

apropos of nothing; to change the subject

1

personal description

3

the rounds of tradesmen going door to door; route man; door-to-door tradesman; thief taker; secret policeman

1

petition; complaint; (legal) brief

2

to throw out; to drop; to toss; to abandon; to neglect; to dismiss

1

southeast

1

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

1

rice ball

1

commemorative plaque (usu. on a stone); stone monument (bearing an inscription)

1

to come apart at the seams; to be ripped; to begin to open; to begin to bloom; to smile broadly; to break into a smile

1

ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides

2

young samurai

1

jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)

1

north-west

2

state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear

1

desperation; struggle to the death

1

the Dog (eleventh sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Dog (around 8pm, 7-9pm, or 8-10pm); west-northwest; ninth month of the lunar calendar

1

to get; to be given

1

(Edo-period) town magistrate

2

setting a bad example to others

1