small point; knob; protuberance; aloneness; loneliness; solitude
intersection; crossing; crossroad; street corner; street
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
cutting roots; extermination; rooting out
heaven's punishment; divine punishment; well-deserved punishment; just punishment
shogunate retainer; shogunate vassal
to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)
town girl; girl raised in a town
break; pause; interruption; intermission
to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
to employ; to hire; to charter
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
dainty; delicate (e.g. fingers); fine; sensitive; delicate (feelings, sense, etc.); subtle
partly open; in half bloom
John Doe; person of unknown name; (arch.) country bumpkin
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
to feel anxious; to feel nervous; fluttering down; trickling down (e.g. tears); hanging untidily (of hair); straggling
phimosis; tightening of the foreskin
sudden change; complete change
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
samurai's compassion; samurai-like mercy
root of an evil; source of a problem; source of trouble; cause of misfortune
mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly); gradual; bit by bit
from right to left; in one ear and out the other; nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado
memorial service for the dead; holding a service
coexistence; living together
pecking order; hierarchical relationship; vertical relationship; hyponymy
learning by watching others; learning by imitation