light; lamp; counter for electric lights
to give shelter to; to lodge; to put up; to accommodate
refined; genteel; graceful; decent
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
pressingly; demandingly; hey! hey!; oi!
to dress stylishly; to joke; to play on words
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
urgent; pressing; immediate; urgently; promptly; at once
to continue to rain or snow
to meet; to meet up; to rendezvous; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
to begin to rain; to begin to snow
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
to deceive; to delude; to trick; to be as ... as ... (e.g. "as bright as day", "as beautiful as a rose")
to succeed in doing; to manage to do; to finish doing
forcing; enforcement; forced; enforced
to pray; to say a prayer; to offer up a prayer
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
to envy; to be envious of; to be jealous of
to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
impudent; shameless; brazen; forward; audacious; cheeky
incarnation; impersonation; personification; avatar
rice given in charity; donating rice
to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar); Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
chamberlain; castle keeper
Yamashiro (former province located in the south of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
(United States of) America; USA
shipping out (to a different part of the country); transporting; shipment
Tenpō era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)
poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)
sudden rise; sharp rise; boom; skyrocketing
strict prohibition; ban; interdiction
proclamation; official notice
execution; enforcing; carrying out; giving alms; giving food to the poor or monks
bent back; hunchback; stoop