national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)
Japanese Red Cross Society; JRC
evening; last night; yesterday evening
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
(arch.) person of high rank; (arch.) nobleman; wife of a nobleman
charitable organization; charitable institution; charity
show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation
Ministry of Justice (1871-1948)
women's group; women's association
man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
Yamaguchi prefecture (Chūgoku area)
to look attractive; to look nice
money (given as thanks); reward money; fee; key money; fee paid for rental rights
current master; father of one's current master; minister (of government); noble; (arch.) nobleman's residence
just; fair; proper; reasonable
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
laying (a railroad, pipes, naval mines, etc.); construction
social meeting place; watering hole
to manage; to arrange; to talk over; to dispose of
whatever will be, will be; things happen the way they happen
reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration
matchmaker; go-between; intermediary; middleman
first day returning to work after the New Years holiday; first task at a new job; newcomer's first job
company director; board member
good bye; I'm off; see you later
parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother); (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)
important post; important office; key position
because of; on account of; regarding; per; apiece
impatient; tantalized; tantalised; irritated; chagrined; chagrinned
welfare; well-being; social welfare; social security; social service
indeed; really; truly; very much
to incur divine punishment; to pay for one's sins; you'll pay for that!; what goes around, comes around