trot; half run; jog; girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
to whisper; to murmur; to rumor; to rumour
one's family; family member
recoil; hesitation; flinching; shrinking back
kitchen door; back door; service door; host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room
one's figure during sleep
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
just as (each) one likes; as (each) one pleases; as (each) one prefers; (each) in one's own way
breathing of a sleeping person
wooden floor; room with a wooden floor; changing room (at a public bath)
pleasant feeling; pleasant sensation; pleasure
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated
old furniture; curios; secondhand goods
foxes and tanuki; sly fellow; deceiver
dwelling; house; residence; den; habitat
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
slightly (of an action); (looking) small and quiet
one thin flat object; one sheet
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
thousand years; very long period; forever
in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of; attached or stretched on
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)
to make (good) progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance
sewing; needlework; embroidery
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
cruel; merciless; pitiful; tragic; breaking a religious precept without shame
string; cord; man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; restrictions; conditions
shame; embarrassment; disgrace
fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown
downstairs neighbour (neighbor); subordinate
scion; cion; (horticultural) graft; opportunity to continue a conversation
hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste
mountain villa; house in the mountains; mountain retreat
after a short time; in a short while; a short time later