neighbourhood; neighborhood
yōkan; jellied dessert made from red bean paste, agar, and sugar
refined; graceful; modest; cultivated; elegant; reserved
good old; good old-fashioned
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
growth; breeding; growing up (in, as); upbringing
woman; female; feminine gender
to make an appearance; to show up
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
to disappear; to vanish into thin air
strict; severe; stern; rigid; rigorous; tough
preparation; arrangements
carelessness; careless mistake; wetting oneself; soiling oneself; (arch.) crude; (arch.) coarse
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding
kitchen; financial situation
to catch sight of; to come into view; to happen to see
one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
take care of yourself; get well soon; God bless you; bless you
one's way back; one's way home
state of mind; mental state; mental attitude
proposed site; site chosen
iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast
to jar; to creak; to grate
evening sky; twilight sky
to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business
at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can
purple smoke; tobacco smoke
to smoke (e.g. pipe); to puff (cigarette)
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
(I) won't say anything no matter what; to be unwilling to tell even under threat
crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)