agency; commission; reception (of guests); conveyance (of messages)
extremely rude (impertinent, impolite)
each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to plunder; to grab; to snatch
yours sincerely; respectfully yours
upstart; parvenu; jumped-up person
empty gun; gun loaded with blanks; firing a blank
Fukushima (city, prefecture)
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
place; room; margin; scope
rainy; showery; inclement
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)
Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi
ignition; lighting; firing; setting off
reward; recompense; return; punishment; retribution
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to fall into (someone's) hands; to fall under someone's control; to become someone's property (e.g. of an object)
ending; conclusion; join; union; knot; knotting
to fight against; to oppose; to face
fifth degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale)
in unison; as one; united
killing a would-be avenger; having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game
consists of; comprises; is made up of
Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam
formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
breakdown; failure; damage; hurt; objection; protest
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)