gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
to shine; to glitter; to sparkle
shopfront; storefront; shopwindow; over-the-counter
era; CE (Common Era); AD (Anno Domini)
festive poem or song; congratulatory form (of waka)
more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage
to be enlivened; to be exhilarated
audacious; daring; bold; throaty (voice); rough; deep
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute
ice pop; icy pole; popsicle; ice lolly
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
fish market; fish dealer; fishmonger
greengrocer; fruit and vegetable shop
uniform; equal; even; common; ordinary; usual
the whole company; the party; attendance (at a gathering); presence; banquet; dinner; troupe
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point (in geometry)
head; lead; vanguard; first
party; gang; company; squad
to strike; to clap; to play drums; to abuse; to bash; to consult; to sound out
driving off birds; procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house; female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen; street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
journey; trip; travels; during the journey; on the way; while travelling
yakuza; gangster; mobster; useless; worthless; good-for-nothing
to dress up as; to disguise oneself as; to play the role of
pattern resembling that of arrow feathers
waiting woman in a shogun or daimyo's palace
to be conspicuous; to stand out
young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony); young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute); younger partner in a homosexual relationship
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned
cold; frigid; bracing; dignified
to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir