to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
desperately; recklessly; rush headlong
dwelling; house; residence; den; habitat
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
token (effort); something done for form's sake
to pile up; to heap up; to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax
Buddha's heart; Buddha's mercy
to take turns; to mingle together
to lose one's way; to get lost
plain; plateau; tableland
came; went; were (somewhere); was (somewhere); were (doing); was (doing)
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
already; now; by this time; quick; early; fast
thankfully; fortunately; luckily; thanks to your (his, their, everyone's, etc.) kindness; thanks to your assistance; thanks to your support
denouncing; calling (e.g. somebody a thief); branding (as)
mountain hamlet; mountain village
nothing but; nothing more than; nothing less than
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
to take; to catch; to capture
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
exemplar; model; example; pattern
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
Watanabe No Tsuna (953-1025)
rope; cord; line; grand champion's braided belt
to work out a plan of deception; to scheme; (arch.) to think up a plan; (arch.) to think over a plan; (arch.) to discuss; (arch.) to consult
valid; effective; yuko (judo)
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
shod feet; wearing shoes; muddy feet; dirty feet
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
simmering; (boiling) gently
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
(United States of) America; USA
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta); Japanese millet; sanwa millet