大菩薩峠 37 恐山の巻 – Vocabulary list

比ひ叡えい山ざん

Mt. Hiei (in Kyoto)

1

絶ぜっ頂ちょう

top (of a mountain); summit; peak; height; orgasm; climax

2

洛らく中ちゅう

inside the capital

1

洛らく外がい

outside Kyoto or the capital

1

指し呼こ

beckoning

1

なんじょう

what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo); what article? (in a law); (arch.) how can?; (arch.) cannot possibly

1

甲きのえ子ね

Wood Rat (1st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

3

雄おす

male (animal, plant)

3

らしき

-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be

1

志し士し

imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation

4

流る浪ろう

vagrancy; wandering; nomadism

1

他た日じつ

some day; hereafter; at some future time

1

天てん嶮けん

natural defences; natural defenses; steep place

1

難かたい

difficult; hard

1

かの地ち

there; that place

1

牢ろう屋や

jail; gaol; jailhouse

1

繋つなぐ

to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve

2

破は牢ろう

breaking out of prison; jailbreak

1

遂すい行こう

accomplishment; execution

1

勤きん番ばん

taking turns on duty (esp. daimyo's retainers on duty in Edo)

1

能の登と

Noto (former province located in the north of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture); Noto (peninsula)

1

邸てい内ない

grounds; premises

2

既き報ほう

previous report; previous announcement

1

東とう海かい道どう

Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

1

風ふう土ど

natural features; topography; climate; spiritual features

1

上のぼす

to raise; to record; to bring up (a matter); to serve (food); to send someone out

2

中じゅう

through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

3

隠いん見けん

appearance and disappearance

1

髻もとどり

place where hair is gathered together atop the head; hair tied (or pinned) together in this position

1

才さい気き

wisdom

1

ふうぼう

looks; appearance

1

凡ぼんならざる

uncommon; extraordinary; rare

1

落おち合あう

to meet; to meet up; to rendezvous; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together

2

打うち合あわせ

advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly

1

推すい定てい

presumption; assumption; estimation

1

面つら魂だましい

fierce or defiant look; determined expression; plucky countenance

4

土と佐さ

Tosa (former province located in present-day Kochi Prefecture)

4

竜りゅう馬め

splendid horse; promoted bishop

11

見みれば見みるほど

the more one looks (at it) the more...

1

当とう世せい

present-day; nowadays

1

似に通かよう

to resemble closely

1

ややこしい

puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex

1

桂かつら小こ五ご郎ろう

Katsura Kogorou (1833-77)

3

めまい

dizziness; giddiness; vertigo

1

駕が

vehicle; horse-drawn carriage

1

かごかき

sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer

1

梅うめ太た郎ろう

Umetarou

1

便べん宜ぎ

convenience; accommodation; advantage; benefit; expediency

1

相あい対たい

involving only the parties concerned; tete-a-tete

1

尖せん端たん

pointed end; tip; point; forefront; vanguard; spearhead

1

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Vocabulary list: 大菩薩峠 37 恐山の巻