background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
clotted blood; gore; sticky clots of blood
scene; view; prospect; outlook
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable
innumerable; countless; numberless
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
sound; noise; acoustics; reverberation; echo; audio
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
to press; to oppress; to dominate; to overwhelm
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
revelatory dream; revelation; a vision
(arch.) youth; (arch.) freshness; good omen; Sweden; Switzerland
degenerate age; corrupt word; age of the decline of Buddhism; latter days of the law
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
follower; attendant; valet; servant
festivities; celebration; wedding; marriage ceremony
and also; and on top of that; so (I take it that ...); then ...; (arch.) in that case; (arch.) if so
in name only; titular; nominal
Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)
one's way back; one's way home
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
konoshiro gizzard shad (Konosirus punctatus)
such; like that; in that way
dictation; verbal statement
to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)
twenty-sixth day of the month; twenty-six days
to set out (on a journey); to start (a task)