long-term credit bank; LTCB
regular employment; full-time employment; regular employee; full-time employee; permanent employee
happy event; cause for celebration; congratulations
geisha; (arch.) kabuki actor (esp. a young actor); (arch.) someone accomplished in the arts
first business conducted by retailers in the New Year
postponement; adjournment
to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)
domain administration (Edo period); clan administration
cooking rice; kitchenmaid; cook
person (or their spirit) who died with no one to tend their grave
young person acting like an old person; officials who helped the council of elders during the Edo period
to start rowing; to begin to row; to row out (e.g. to sea); to pull out; to start pedaling; to begin to pedal
Chinese person; (arch.) foreigner
educational policies or administration; Bunsei era (1818.4.22-1830.12.10)
trivial; insignificant; meager; meagre; that little amount; such a small extent
mountain folk; hermit; mountain wizard; word used as part of a pseudonym by artists, writers, etc.
daimyo's main Tokyo mansion
New Year's greetings; New Year's call; New Year's gift
one's parents' home; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
garden watchman; garden keeper; guard of the inner garden
to become rustic; to be countrified
Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)
military science; strategy; tactics
exceedingly; extremely; exceptionally; unexpectedly
vague; fuzzy; elusive; slippery
slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)
Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)