contagious disease; communicable disease; transmissible disease; infectious disease; epidemic
opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port; opening a port to foreign vessels or trade
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
epidemic; plague; pestilence
to go out; to go around; to walk about; to roam
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
both countries; Ryōgoku (area of Tokyo)
to cool oneself; to cool off; to enjoy the cool air
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
public bathhouse; building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)
public bathhouse; bathhouse proprietor
hairdresser; hairdressing
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
the public; general public
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
scarabaeid beetle grub; any insect (or worm, etc.) that lives in soil
indoor (court, pool, etc.)
to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath
depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
cradle (of civilisation, civilization, etc.); birthplace
person affected by a disease; sufferer
to spit out; to eject; to dump
to tell (somebody) to (do something)
semicircle; hemicycle; half globe; to go halfway round (e.g. the earth)
to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards
March; third month of the lunar calendar
outside a gate; beyond one's area of expertise
(Edo-period) chief minister
founding a country; opening of a country (e.g. Japan) to the world; ending (a policy of) national seclusion
political measures; policy
should; must; -able; probably; likely
there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much
to contract (a disease); to suffer from
undeserved good luck; luck of the devil; dumb luck; bad luck
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation