dyeing; staining; dyed colour (color)
shameless; shameless person
till; to; concerning (an area of expertise); swearing by (one's sword, God, etc.)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
guess; speculation; supposition
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
to proceed with things; to carry out; to do
of all people; a person of ...'s standing
to put in; to place inside; to be enthusiastic; to be engrossed; to be in high spirits; to be excited
to shake; to waver; to tremble
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
lineage; pedigree; family line; birth
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
beyond imagination; unimaginable
separation; farewell; parting
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home
to put clothes on (someone); to dress; to cover; to coat; to pin (e.g. a crime on someone); to lay (blame)
tedious; boring; being fed up with
the place for; the time for; the level of
great nuisance; extremely annoying; quite embarrassing
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
to read the situation; to sense the mood
function; facility; faculty; feature
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
the most; the best; peerless; the greatest; first-rate
raising the curtain; opening (of an event); start of a season
you have only to; all you have to (do); all that's required; as long as; if only
to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)
abusive language; violent language; wild words
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
to glare at each other; to confront each other
special; auspicious; happy; naive; innocent; good-natured
field of flowers; flower garden; flower bed; field of alpine flowers
quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument
to exceed the budget; to overrun the budget; to have a deficit; to have a secret revealed
haughty; holding one's head high
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated