halfsies; splitting evenly between two people
to be born; to come into the world
restlessly; aimlessly; to loiter; to drift; to be restless; to fuss
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
to order; to send away for; to have (something) sent to one; to pull (something) closer
to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
(arch.) word; waka (classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka)
long (time that has passed); old (story)
feeling; sensation; mood; sensation of doing
if you think about it; come to think of it
frame; framework; outline
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
distant look; faraway look
the place for; the time for; the level of
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
piece; fragment; one (object)
to become distant; to recede
lying face down; upside down; prone
bell signalling that work, class, etc. will formally begin shortly; first bell; warning bell
boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier
verbalizing; putting into words
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
even so; all the same; nevertheless; yes, but ...
anything and everything; just about everything
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into
bell signalling that work, class, etc. has formally begun