lateness; tardiness; arriving late
hot (to the touch); passionate (feelings, etc.); ardent; hot (e.g. temper); zealous; enthusiastic; intense
I see; that's right; indeed
to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to get angry; to snap
deity of rice fields and harvests
Ise merchant; shop name of an Ise merchant; (arch.) miser; (arch.) stingy person; (arch.) skinflint
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
Inari shrine; shrine dedicated to Inari
to bear fruit; to ripen; to produce (good) results; to show results; to bear fruit
village; human habitation; human settlement
to catch the eye; to attract attention
conduct; behavior; behaviour
cry (of an animal); call; chirp; song; caw; roar
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
guidance; leadership; leading the way
messenger of god; divine messenger
to regard (as); to consider (to be); to deem; to look upon (as); to think of (as)
kuda-gitsune; pipe fox; fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses; stoat
ahead; before; the future; pardon me for leaving (first)
(arch.) leader of a nobleman's cavalcade; animal messenger of the gods (i.e. a fox)
pipe; tube; bobbin (in a shuttle or spinning wheel)
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
abuse; misuse; perversion
possession by a fox spirit; person possessed by a fox spirit
superstition; superstitious belief
slope; sloping ground; sloping lot
the reason is ...; it is because ...
accumulation; pile; heap; sedimentation
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
two years later; year after next
every evening; every night
to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
stock-still; motionless; frozen in place
to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)