professional gambler; gangster; gang member; good-for-nothing; ne'er-do-well; hoodlum
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
beating time with one's foot
to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)
right side; style of Japanese court music
to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully
grayish color; greyish colour; grizzled hair
something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
reading (farsighted) glasses; spectacles for the aged
displeasure; ill humour; ill humor; pique
appearance; air; condition; state; form
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
to stop talking; to break off; to pause
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
maliciousness; ill will; noxious gas; (arch.) (vengeful) ghost; (arch.) specter
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
strong spirit; mettle; backbone; guts; fighting spirit
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust
to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)
aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu; frying in oil; deep-fried food
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
carriage; movement (of the body)
on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with
Urashima Tarō; (a) Rip van Winkle; fairy-tale fisherman who, after visiting the underwater Palace of the Dragon King, returns centuries later
younger princess; Oto Hime; Princess of the Dragon Palace (from the story of Urashima Tarō)
Urashima's casket (in the story of Urashima Tarō); Pandora's box; one's closely guarded treasure
stock-in-trade; tools of one's trade