fiftieth day after the birth of a child; fifty days
penalty; sentence; punishment
closing of a gate; (Edo-period) house confinement
scandal; deplorable event
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
chief vassal; senior statesman
accepting bribes; corruption; graft
crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility
to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish
to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time
to be appointed to a post; to assume office
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
extinction; discontinuation; severance; rupture; to become extinct; to cease to exist
to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
lizard; skink lizard (Scincidae spp.)
tail (animal); tail end; tip
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); thinking ill of a person based on a misunderstanding; unjustified resentment caused by a misunderstanding; responding to kindness with resentment
to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again
information; news; report; reward; retribution
and they all lived happily ever after; having a happy ending; ending without incident
no change; no difference; no unusual events; no accidents; no incidents
stockpile; reserves; storing; stocking up; laying in (supplies)
social conditions; phase of life; (sign of) the times; state of society
again (and again); once again; yet again; (there you go) again
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time
arrest; apprehension; capture
wounded person; injured person
corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to; appropriate; suitable; to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that
disquieting; threatening; turbulent; restless; unsettled; disturbing
another; one more; not quite; not very good; lacking
preface; introduction; preamble
together; mutually; fellow
whitebait; elver (young eel)
several times; several degrees
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)
to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big