store selling boiled vegetables, fish, and beans
low-ranking samurai; rolling three and one (in a dice game)
hand-operated electric generator (used in Edo-period medical treatment); (arch.) electricity
to a great extent; incredibly (tasty, much, etc.); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)
since our last meeting; since we parted
kitchen maid; kitchen duties; cooking
early evening cloud; clouds at sunset
domain administration (Edo period); clan administration
about here; in this neighborhood
too good (for a child, to be true, etc.); overproduction (e.g. of crops); making too much
idiot; dummy; joker; fool; trickster
this one; this way; this method
to cut; to slit; to cut open
albino fox; white (spiritual) fox
right?; don't you think?; don't you agree?
disorder; confusion; violence; outrage; riot
of no concern; nothing; trivial; (lit.) not even a fart
tedious talk; repetition; complaint; tongue-twister
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
grated daikon; daikon grater
practice writing with a brush; study; learning
each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of
needle-point holder (in ikebana); frog
seal of blood; sealing with one's blood
inside (a refrigerator, warehouse, etc.)
to reach a situation about which nothing can be done
to trip someone up; to pull the carpet from under
granted that; even if; even though
to manage; to arrange; to talk over; to dispose of
all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives
to be transmitted (handed down) from generation to generation
fish of the genus Rhinogobius; dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus); common freshwater goby (Gymnogobius urotaenia); Japanese fluvial sculpin (fish, Cottus pollux)
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
to cause someone's death; to cause someone to die; to kill
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly
fire built in an iron basket (watch fire, fishing fire, etc.); bonfire; campfire; (arch.) brothel-keeper (Edo period)
lesson; discipline; example (e.g. set a bad example); revelation