laughing foolishly; cackling
victory; triumph; conquest; success; win
component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
holiday house; vacation home; villa; prison; jail
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
hideout; secret base of operations; safe house
one's possessions; ownership
moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
especially; above all; inter alia; among others
lonely (place); remote; in the middle of nowhere
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
mountain villa; mountain retreat; mountain cottage
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
frequency hijacking; broadcast signal intrusion
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
play; recreation; play (theatre); performance; staging; praying
to amuse oneself; to make merry
sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl
heavily laden (of a branch); sagging; drooping; bent low
gigantic peak; kyoho grape; large purple-black slip-skin grape variety, like Concord grapes
horizon (related to land)
beyond; across; the other side; the distance
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)