to uncask; to open a barrel
hideout; secret base of operations; safe house
condominium (usu. mid or high-rise); apartment building; apartment house; block of flats; apartment; flat
to live; to reside; to inhabit
clanging; empty; deserted
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
apartment with one bedroom and a combined dining room and kitchen
shoe; shoes; boots; footwear; footgear
to take off (clothes, shoes, etc.); to undress
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)
balcony; veranda; verandah; porch
to chuckle to oneself; to gloat (over)
preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving
completely exhausted; dog-tired; dreadfully weary; terribly frustrated; limp; weak
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
anything and everything; just about everything
grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence
to roll; to tumble; to fall over; to roll over; to lie down; to be scattered about; to be lying around
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
ecstasy; rapture; trance; senility
prediction; prophecy; prognostication
surging waves; raging billows; turbulent; tempestuous; tumultuous
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
cinnabar; vermillion; red pigment (and ink made from same); red text (as used to correct documents)
halving; dividing (into two parts); bisection; the two equinoxes (vernal and autumnal)
to ripen; to mature; to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act); to be in common use; to come to sound natural