coloured glasses; tinted glasses; sunglasses; biased view; preconceived view
formality; social rules; social status; social standing; (arch.) amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
husband; groom; (one's) son-in-law
to hate; to dislike; to loathe
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
near oneself; close to one; familiar
(one's) older brother; lad; sonny
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
to confute; to argue down; to persuade; to convince; to prevail on
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
being good at selling; shrewd salesman
gossipy; abusive; critical; jabbering
Kyoto and vicinity (esp. during Edo period); Kyoto-Osaka region; Kansai region
setting up a stall or booth (bazaar, festival); opening a branch office; opening a store
to trade in (commercial goods); to deal in; to sell
one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace
tasks; things to do; errand; business (to take care of); affairs; engagement
pouring alcohol; person pouring alcohol for guests or customers (typically a woman); (apprentice) geisha; dancing girl
skill learned in one's former days; using one's experience from the past
to put on airs; to assume importance
caution; admonition; prohibition; ban; punishment; (arch.) caution
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
interference; meddling; butting in
useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated
expulsion; dismissal; ejection; drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)
dwelling; house; residence; living; life
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about
to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
a great deal; very much; a lot; (arch.) with a great amount of effort
innocent; naive; unsophisticated; birth-
don't be absurd; that's out of the question; nonsense; don't mention it
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy
to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
how many people; a number of people