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Baian

1

cooked rice with added ingredients (meat, vegetables, etc.)

1

to beat a hasty retreat; to turn tail and run away; to take to one's heels

1

Shinnosuke

4

a little late; somewhat late; latish; a little slow; somewhat slow

3

Tetsugorou

1

economical; bargain; good value; good-value

11

frosty night

9

miso soup

2

inarizushi; sushi wrapped in fried tofu

4

beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)

1

to bundle; to tie up

1

morning bath

2

waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant); hostess

7

300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

3

basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.); freshwater clam; freshwater mussel

2

eel restaurant

1

to lie down; to retire; to go to bed (with an illness)

1

fish served whole (complete with head and tail)

1

domain administration (Edo period); clan administration

1

weather-beaten

11

epidemic

1

archery range; brothel (covering up as an archery range)

1

august visit; arrival

2

the Bon Festival and New Year; two great things (happening at the same time)

1

missus; missis

1

gathering of haiku poets

1

deposit; earnest money

1

taking turns on duty (esp. daimyo's retainers on duty in Edo)

1

two-sworded (samurai)

1

house for rent; house to let; building a house; built house

1

to count on; to anticipate; to expect

1

to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset

1

deposit; earnest payment; earnest money

1

mallet; pestle; pounder

6

four thousand; 4,000

4

treasure house; treasury; financial supporter; patron; financier

1

methodical; precise; meticulous; wooden post that has been carved to have a rounded corner with grooves running along either side of it

1

to ruin oneself

1

liquor-soaked; continuous drinking; daily drinking; binge drinking

1

one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace

1

running errands; going on errands; (transaction of) business; going about one's business; doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom

3

will or decree (esp. of shogun); emperor's wishes

2

farmer's home

1

burning curiosity

1

Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri

2

to be astonished to hear; to be incredulous about; to express disbelief; who do you think you're kidding by saying (that); what a laugh!

1

to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into

2

waste of labor or energy; waste of labour; vain effort

1

learning

4