training; education; stocking up; laying in; preparation (e.g. ingredients); girl studying to become a geisha
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
one's principles and position
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together
to conceal; to keep secret; to cover up
teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine
to be contrary (to); to go against; to infringe; to violate; to disobey (an order, teachings, etc.); to defy
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
feudal lord; (arch.) mansion; (arch.) palace
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
blunder; fault; error; mistake; failure; disgrace
to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (e.g. a blunder); to disgrace oneself
like; similar to; something like ...; someone like ...
to go through; to pierce; to penetrate; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out; to persist with
quite capable of ...; not unlikely to ...; may well ...; might ...; could ...; would not hesitate to ...
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
mainly; primarily; mostly; largely; chiefly
to serve; to work for; to attend
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
wrong; different; not like that
to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain
bedside; near one's pillow
handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission
head house; main family; founder (of a certain school, style, etc.); originator; birthplace
secret (recipe, medicine, etc.); mysteries (e.g. of an art)
makimono; handscroll; roll of cloth (for making a kimono); scarf; stole; makizushi
gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)
hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
modus operandi; criminal technique; trick
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
ignorant of the ways of the world