polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
to be sorry; to beg pardon; to be grateful; to be amazed; to be filled with awe; to be disconcerted
ascending and descending; going up and down
due form; official; formality
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
shallow; superficial; slight (wound); light (sleep); short (time); early
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
to open one's heart; to throw off reserve; to be frank
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
upper reaches (of a river); upper stream; top; upper part; long ago; beginning; first
shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
second line of a four-line Chinese poem
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
restlessly; aimlessly; to loiter; to drift; to be restless; to fuss
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
to come across; to happen upon
town-watches from the Edo period
thereupon; shortly thereafter
sanity; consciousness; soberness
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.)
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)