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back to back; discord; feud; opposite sides of the same coin

1

love is blind; (lit.) (when in love) even pockmarks are dimples

1

love-letter

11

speechless (with amazement); struck dumb; tongue-tied; dumbfounded

1

wastepaper; scrap paper

2

indolence

2

senior town administrator (Edo period)

3

(short) run; drive; ride; spin

1

poor correspondent; apparent disdain of (or trouble with) writing; someone who appears to dislike (or be poor at) writing

1

walking about town; stroll around town; walking the streets (e.g. for exercise)

2

the sun

1

Souemon

2

mishearing; (feigned) deafness; homophonic translation of song lyrics for comic effect

2

three and a half lines

6

wife (esp. of a prominent, recently married man)

1

professional comic (rakugo) storyteller

6

what the hell are you saying!?

1

to tear (up) paper

1

jealous person

1

hot water; hot bath

6

time passes; the days and months go by; the months roll on

1

matrimonial happiness; happy marriage

1

an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance; (a young adult still) living at home; a dependent

1

overly serious; serious to a fault; humorless

1

if it is not ...; if it does not ...

2

good looks; pretty woman; good-looking woman

5

unskilled; awkward; bad; clumsy; poor

1

to write incorrectly; to miswrite; to spoil (e.g. a letter) due to writing mistakes; to ruin; to make a mess of

1

sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca); Egyptian cucumber; loofah; loofa; something useless

1

curious onlookers; rubbernecks

1

beriberi

1

secondhand store

6

Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri

1

doing ... until one goes bankrupt; doing ... until one goes broke; falling short of (one's reputation); failing to live up to (one's appearance); falling through (e.g. of a plan)

1

gardener

2

one's husband; one's wife

1

laziness; lazy person

1

to rest; to relax; to repose

1

to purchase; to buy in

1

lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods

3

gossip

1

practice writing with a brush; study; learning

18

son and heir; son who will succeed one

1

wastepaper; scrap paper

3

drawing; painting; picture

3

to be cleared of a charge

1

great inconvenience; great deal of trouble; big nuisance; royal pain in the behind

1

village headman (esp. in the Kanto region)

4

to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

1

true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo

1