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Otokichi

1

counteraction; counterclaim

1

Kyounosuke

1

Toragorou

6

Ibigawa

1

Buddhist priest; temple with a resident priest

2

deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed

1

holiday; day on which prostitutes had to receive clients

2

traveling entertainer who wears a lion mask and does tumbling acts

2

heavy drinker; tippler

1

owlet moth (members of the family Noctuidae); noctuid

1

secret notebook

10

ritual visits to a temple

2

opening of a meeting

1

tooth blackening; tooth-blackening dye

1

what the hell are you saying!?

1

head

1

covering used to wrap a baby

1

Hōreki era (1751.10.27-1764.6.2)

2

kitchen maid; kitchen duties; cooking

4

tossing a coin (to a street performer or beggar); tossed coin; (online) tipping; tip; donation

1

early evening cloud; clouds at sunset

3

meanwhile; in the meantime

1

godparents; foster parents

1

Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

3

influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well

1

sentry box; guardhouse; guard lodge; (Edo period) police box

1

total fire loss; completely burned

3

small pouch containing a paper charm or talisman

2

strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame

7

Okichi

3

to miss; to yearn for

1

nightcap; a drink before sleeping

1

Ardisia crenata; coralberry

1

begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

5

fire alarm; fire bell

1

Tokushima (city, prefecture)

1

(dead) end; end of the line

1

pickpocket

1

to die; to go to heaven

1

to steal or sneak or slip into

1

heaven; paradise

3

great; grand; (arch.) obstinate; (arch.) stubborn

1

river management; river improvement; flood control

3

shakuhachi; end-blown fippleless bamboo flute; blow job; fellatio

13

to be estranged

1

won't (hasn't, isn't, doesn't, etc.); won't you

1

raging flames; roaring flames; raging fire

1

needle-point holder (in ikebana); frog

1

rather; sooner; preferably

1