operation; management; handling; manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
rice reaping; rice harvesting
wet nurse; nursing mother
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
illicit manufacturing; illicit distilling; moonshining
doburoku (unrefined sake)
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
to manage; to control; to supervise; to crack down on; to keep under strict control; to enforce
secret; private; surreptitious
to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on
open; public; overt; free; unreserved; uninhibited
coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway
coming out (as gay, etc.)
illicitly brewed liquor; moonshine
few decades; many decades; several decades
unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen
assertion; declaration; affirmation
a lot; many; (not) much; (not) many; almost (none)
though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless
to work out; to think up; to devise; to manage to find (money, time, etc.); to scrape together (funds)
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
to refuse; to decline; to deny
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
rationalization; justification
good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory
fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds); fair weather; clear weather; clear sky; fair skies
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
to stand in (someone's) place; to be in a (certain) position
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
rather; better; instead; if anything
keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to well up; to burst; to arise
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky
indescribable; having no way to express
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
field; sphere; realm; division; branch