appearance; features; looks
finger marks; dirt from the hands
trainspotter; railway enthusiast; railfan
(Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall
wandering; jobless; unemployed
spoiled; spoilt; ruined; loss of face
vegetables; (edible) greens; blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)
distant future; inevitable future; places one goes to
innocent (esp. of a girl); naive; virgin; maiden; young striped mullet
(secret) date; clandestine meeting; assignation; tryst; rendezvous
to wed; to be married; to shift blame to someone else
to be blessed with children
leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out; starting a new life; starting life anew
naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata
the other day; some time ago; recently
suckling child; babe in arms; child at the breast; baby; infant
to keep a house; to run a household
to forget something ever existed; to pretend something didn't happen; to put something behind one; to forgive (something)
daytime; noon; broad daylight
sizzling (of cooking meat, fish, etc.); frizzling
a cut above the rest; superior; one field; one matter; suitably; reasonably
to atone for; to expiate; to redeem; to make up for; to compensate for
of all things (days, etc.)
lewdness; lewd person; pervert; lecher
one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); -ing
having lost face; in a bind
lifelike; exact resemblance
selling oneself (into bondage) (esp. for prostitutes)
to give one's heart to; to fall in love; to turn one's mind towards; to think of
remaining an idle spectator; looking on unconcernedly (doing nothing)
(Edo-period) town magistrate
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)