festive poem or song; congratulatory form (of waka)
kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times; the seven common disguises of ninja
court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period); female servant for a samurai family; lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)
innocent girl; naive girl; virgin
tear; rip; breach; spoilage; waste; wastepaper
sake offered to someone; treat of sake
to miss; to fail to capitalize; to fail to capitalise
rain shower while the sun shines; sun shower; procession of will-o'-the-wisps seen at night; jack-o'-lantern parade
cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation
peace and tranquility; peace and tranquillity
married man or woman; housekeeping
long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path)
one's parents' home; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
to be arrested; to be put in bonds
head of an organizational section; head of an organisational section
Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
place where fire is likely to break out; possible cause of a fire
Kyōhō era (1716.6.22-1736.4.28)
sentry box; guardhouse; guard lodge; (Edo period) police box
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
to applaud; to cheer (for)
treasure house; treasury; financial supporter; patron; financier
unsigned; without a signature
inherited; family (heirloom); ancestral
greed; cruelty; callous; (arch.) insistent; (arch.) insistence
usurer; usury; loansharking
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage
to hang oneself; to strangle oneself
imprudent (misguided) fellow