dried trepang; dried sea slug; dried sea cucumber
money needed to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage
net income; net profits; net pay
house arrest; being placed in confinement at home
in and about a kitchen; family circumstances
one-plate meal; simple meal; austerity diet
economic crisis; financial crisis
deposit; money paid on account; bargain money
first warbling heard in a New Year
marine product; marine (e.g. product, animal etc.)
finance reform; fiscal reconstruction
things depend on how you look at them
daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)
homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman; soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.
means of making a living; source of income; bread and butter; livelihood
angry voice; one's voice when shouting with anger
delightful; joyous; joyful; happy; desirable; welcome
Hyottoko; comical male character with puckered, skewed mouth; clown; ugly mug; ugly guy
exceeding what one had heard; beyond one's expectations
the treasure that is children; child
Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
(at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year
children and grandchildren; posterity; descendants
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine
Sarcandra glabra (species of flowering shrub in the family Chloranthaceae); 1000 ryō (an old Japanese coin)
shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes)
dried squid; dried cuttlefish; Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus); (thing that) grows on one over time
paying to get someone (esp. a geisha, prostitute, etc.) out of bondage
Japanese calligraphy paper (approx. 25cm by 35cm)
to kindle; to build a fire; to instigate; to stir up; to incite
trouble; bother; annoyance