trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession
piece; dry-goods; piece goods
being trapped (and having no way out); withdrawal from society during personal financial hardship; house arrest (Edo period)
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
having nothing except one's body; having empty pockets; being penniless
allowance; remittance; sending (someone) an allowance
talk about divorce or separation
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
teahouse; (Edo period) rest stop; (geisha) teahouse; establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha; tea house (that sells tea); tea dealer
cheap lodging (especially in a skid row area or slum); flophouse
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
to comfort; to console; to amuse
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
stupid; meaningless; worthless; hopeless (person, situation); beyond help; beyond saving
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end
talking while standing; standing around talking
regret; flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart (usu. served as yakitori)
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
tea (esp. green or barley); tea break; teatime; tea ceremony
shame; embarrassment; disgrace
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
extravagant spending; wasteful spending; splurging; squandering
economic slump; hard times; poor (business); dull; gloomy; cheerless
something; some kind of; for some reason
a short while ago; just now; already; for a long time
going to and fro; back and forth
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
something; what; why; how
fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
to expose; to disclose; to lay bare; to confess