gambling; gaming; speculation; undertaking a risky venture; (arch.) professional gambler; (arch.) gamester
tatami-mat room rented out for meetings, meals, etc.; place for assignations; (Edo-period) brothel
Nakamura Jakuemon (1920.8-)
check (pattern); ichimatsu doll
young man in his prime; swaggerer; ruffian
to ask; to enquire; to query
yours sincerely; respectfully yours
(artistic) accomplishments
to close (one's eyes); to shut
female help; female labor; woman's handwriting; (arch.) hiragana
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
disinheritance; disowning
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
temple elementary school (during the Edo period)
to put together; to gather; to collect; to scrape together
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
established (certain) fact
taking over; handing over; transfer of control; inheriting; passing on the baton
reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid
originating; causing; beginning
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
foreword; preface; prefatory note
displeasure; offense; offence; disliking
environment; circumstance
to calculate; to compute; to deduce; to infer; to conclude
fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)
presumptuous; arrogant; audacious; forward; insolent
virtue; charm; merit; good point
to join together; to patch together