to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
talk; recital; narration; topic
public bathhouse; bathhouse proprietor
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign
dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable
to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)
useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
to turn back; to go back; to repeat; to send back; to bring back; to retrace one's steps
to criticize harshly; to blame; to accuse; to urge; to press
to break the silence; to break one's silence
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
to half-rise to one's feet
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
hot-spring cure; taking the baths
freely; frankly; without reserve
to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush
to pester someone (e.g. to buy something)
to put on airs; to assume importance
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
800; eight hundred; multitude; large number
half-moon; half a month; semicircle
to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for
Yamashiro (former province located in the south of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
construction; architecture (of buildings)
contract (for work); contracting; undertaking
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
estimate; estimation; valuation; quotation
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
8000; eight thousand; many
to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)
alteration; falsification; faking