easy to deal with; easily manageable; tractable; malleable
future; possible; potential; prospective
mistress; kept woman; concubine; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)
inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem
inheritance; succession; accession; share-alike
to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
illegitimate (e.g. born to a mistress)
mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; banal
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
much less; to say nothing of
to be broad-minded enough to associate with various types of people; to possess a capacious mind
(pressing) hard; badgeringly; pesteringly; repeatedly; urgingly
millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)
to get tired of waiting; to grow impatient
with all due respect; if I may make bold to ask
emphatic verbal prefix; humble verbal prefix
indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very
to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at
fucking; screwing; having sex
cold reception; inhospitality
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
person who avoids others; social outcast
sticky; persistent; insistent; nagging
according to (depending on) the mood of the moment; as one's fancy dictates
to yell; to shout; to scream; to bawl
to throw a punch at; to swing at; to strike out at; to raise a hand against
adopted daughter; foster daughter
to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain
diagnosis; medical examination
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
naming; nominating; designating; calling on; asking for; requesting
running errands (for someone else); errand boy; gofer; dogsbody
opposition; resistance; insubordination; defiance; hostility; rebellion