twosome; duo; pair (of criminals)
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy
charm; fascination; glamour; glamor; attraction; appeal
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
one's heart; the mind; inner feelings; inmost thoughts; true motives
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; having no intention of ...
street stall; stand; booth
street; quarter; district; area
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
clothes; female genitals; vagina; calf; last (on the list); (at the) bottom
common fig (Ficus carica); fig; fig tree
to drop; to let fall; to omit
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
undulation; ups and downs; highs and lows
to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on
to confide; to reveal; to disclose; to lay bare; to speak frankly; to open (one's heart)
marriage proposal; courtship
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
wild; in disarray; harum-scarum; hysteric
heh heh heh; tee-hee; giggle
rare; extraordinary; singular
feeling chilly; nervous; anxious; frightened
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
hotel expenses; expenses incurred during a stay
memento (esp. of a deceased person); keepsake; heirloom; remembrance; souvenir
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
to pray; to say a prayer; to offer up a prayer
at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now
gem; jewel; precious stone