skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline
scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops
(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
to play a leading role; to play a central part
newcomer; neophyte; novice; newbie
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)
to ignite; to set fire to; to spark (an incident, etc.); to inflame (a situation, etc.)
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
slight; light; thin; faint; dim
one; same (mind, path, etc.)
quietly; slowly; gracefully
to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
ostensible (surface) reason
to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)
to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone
concession; conciliation; compromise
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
appeal; call for something; request; axiom
to get cracked; to develop a crack; to be fissured
returning home; visiting one's parents; new bride's first visit to parents
to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
yearned for; longed for; missed
development; revitalization; standing (something) up; waking up; tilling a rice field; drawing a card from the draw pile
daimyo's main Tokyo mansion
villa; daimyo's suburban residence
ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing
the whole month; all the month
the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down