quick work; (clever) feat
taking on one's share (e.g. of work); dividing (work, expenses, etc.) between; apportionment; allotment; allocation; assignment
main performer; star performer; headliner; rakugo storyteller of the highest rank
moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600)
pillage; plunder; looting; robbery
solid; firm; steady; unshakeable; unwavering
Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
genius; prodigy; (person of) great talent; remarkable person
brigadier general; commodore
masterful performance; virtuosity
blackmail; extortion; threat (to extort money)
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
to go out and away; to leave
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
to strip someone; to help someone remove (clothes)
wearing a sword; sword one is wearing
to emit; to spout; to spurt; to boil over
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
to open (e.g. one's robe); to bare (e.g. one's chest); to open up (of clothing); to be exposed; (arch.) to open wide (one's legs, eyes, mouth, etc.); (arch.) to stretch
one's property; personal effects; one's belongings
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word
good family; respectable family; decent family
despite being a woman; woman as she is; (in a way that is) unbecoming to a woman; (in a way that is) uncharacteristic of a woman; in an unladylike way
to be softened; to calm down
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
to be given up; to be discontinued
government office; public office
preparation; supplying; procurement