to go to bed; to be sick in bed; to be laid up
secrecy; confidentiality; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal); inner realization; personal enlightenment
to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing
crucian carp (Carassius spp.)
silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling
to peddle (goods); to hawk
free-loader; hanger-on; parasite; house guest
a cut above the rest; superior; one field; one matter; suitably; reasonably
sliding door (esp. when removed from its frame and used for carrying things or people); large flounder
three sun (ca. 9.1 cm); something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun); stall-keeper; huckster; (arch.) prostitute of the lowest rank
manager; steward; factotum; useful person
displeasure; ill humour; ill humor; pique
spreading; laying out; security deposit; Japanese mattress
nonglutinous grain (not sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes)
to deal a blow in return; to hit back; to punch back; to reject; to send back
to find fault (with); to cavil (at); to carp (about); to throw a wet blanket (on); to throw cold water (on); to jinx
nice-looking; seemingly fine; nice-sounding; polite-sounding; plausible (e.g. excuse); glib
snappingly; with a snap; merely ...; having just ...
to exert oneself; to devote oneself to
to knock down; to beat up (till unable to stand)
your wife; his wife; secret meeting; secrecy
Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
blunt (e.g. sword); dull; lazy; cowardly; good for nothing
Sanzu River (Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx)
guaranteed; authentic; certified
(Internet) troll; disturber; raising havoc; laying waste; robbery; holdup
sweet flag (Acorus calamus); calamus; Japanese iris (Iris ensata var. ensata)
hindrance; obstacle; harm; bad effect; sickness
to undertake; to take on (task); to assure; to guarantee; to vouch (for)
my sympathies; that's too bad; my condolences
millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)
to be careless; to be inattentive; long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled); (arch.) flaring up (fire); (arch.) rising (e.g. steam)
person of lofty virtue; man of noble character; perfect person; saint
to become desperate; to give in to despair
woven mat (esp. one made of straw); (arch.) seat
extraordinarily; astonishingly; extremely; terribly; unreasonably; absurdly
traveling expenses; travelling expenses
to install (a king, emperor, etc.); to appoint (to a post); to promote; to assign (to study under)