cheap restaurant; eating place (house)
first class; first rank; one degree; one level; most; best
busy place; busy street; place that's always bustling with people; amusement quarters
to play a leading role; to play a central part
destined; predestined; fated; fateful
either way; in any case; one way or another
fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest
criminal's head on public display; displaying a beheaded head; beheaded head
execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion
(making a) lesson (of); (setting an) example; warning
cheating at pachinko (for monetary gain; through illegal tampering with the machines, etc.); scamming a pachinko parlor
fireside; hearth; by the fire
cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
main dish (e.g. meat, fish, but not rice); principal dish
sea bream (Sparidae); porgy; tai (species of reddish-brown Pacific sea bream, Pagrus major)
toast; congratulatory cup
northward; facing the north; nobleman's true wife
so; like that; that's right; indeed; let me see...
cowardice; timidity; bashfulness
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
great man; hero; master mind
intimacy; familiarity; closeness
one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N
to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly
beach; seashore; seaside; coast
to count up; to enumerate
parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot
gunfight; exchange of shots; firefight
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
paper silhouette cutout; paper knife
to one's heart's content or satisfaction
much more; not to mention; not to speak of; to say nothing of; let alone
hazing; gruelling training; waistband; woman's undergirdle
orderly; regular; systematic; well-organized; well-organised; trim
fallen leaves; leaf litter; falling leaves