floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end
to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up
violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)
cunning deed; sly trick; foul play; cunning person; sly fellow; cheat
to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
to rush over; to run up to
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
because; the reason is; if you want to know why
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
unexpected; contrary to expectations; by chance; casual
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
peril; danger; hazard; distress
to bring; to take; to bring about
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
almost; roughly; approximately
half-moon; half a month; semicircle
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
last third of a month; 21st to the last day of a month
apartment building; apartment block; apartment house; apartment
discussion; talk; tête-à-tête; conference
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles