national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
Nagasaki (city, prefecture)
ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
a long time (since the last time); it's been a while (since I last saw, mailed, etc., you)
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
hot spring; mineral spring; salon offering beauty treatments, weight reduction, relaxation, etc.; spaghetti
moderately; in moderation
closing one's eyes; passing away
grass used for thatching; sedge used for thatching
last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)
like cats and dogs; (on) very bad terms; (lit.) relationship of dogs and monkeys
experienced; veteran; skilled; expert
cunning; crafty; wily; sly
prosperity; thriving; flourishing
Vocaloid; singing voice synthesis software and related products, or a humanoid persona voiced by such software
creeping at night into a woman's bedroom; stealing into a girl's bedroom at night to make love; sneaking visit
surmise (about somebody's feelings); guess; conjecture
hostile relations; hostile relationship
extension; prolongation; enlargement (e.g. of a photograph)
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
death in battle; death on the battlefield
losing a battle; lost battle; battle one cannot win; battle one is doomed to lose
finishing blow; coup de grâce
whatever will be, will be; things happen the way they happen
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
electronic book; e-book; ebook
to write ruby characters (small furigana above or beside kanji)
classification; assortment
last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.
the House of Tokugawa; the Tokugawas
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
hustle; working hard; doing with enthusiasm; showing eagerness; being full of vigour
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
covering; filled in; complete; total; cliched; clichéd; plaintext