account; history; notice; note; Kojiki (earliest historical record of Japan, compiled in 712 CE); Records of Ancient Matters
bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase
narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable
Virgin and Child; Virgin Mary and baby Jesus
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
endlessly; continuously; (going) on and on; meandering; winding; sinuous
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
24th day of the month; 24 days
by; not later than; before
Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo); Yedo
to call; to summon; to eat; to drink; to put on; to wear; to buy
to think (only used to speak of others); to turn one's attention toward (only used to speak of others); to have feelings for (only used to speak of others); to honour the target of one's emotions
to be overcome with emotion
halo; aureole; aureola; halo (optical phenomenon); glory
slatted shutter; louver door (window)
attendant; attendance upon another
last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)
to be all out (e.g. of people); to be all elsewhere; to be all in use (e.g. of cars); to be sold out; to have none left
scorn; disdain; contempt; slight
malicious (at heart); spiteful; wicked
to grieve; to lament; to deplore; to admire; to sigh in admiration
dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky
semi-darkness; dim light; poor light; dusk; twilight
to make an appearance; to show up
news; word; tidings; omen; foreboding; premonition
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
outside the city; suburbs
snow-bearing wind; wind bringing snow
to fall completely silent; to become still as death
suppressed laugh; smile; giggle; chuckle
to sit; to squat; to be implicated