cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
circumference; perimeter; work outside the office; outer tracks (in a loop or curve)
public bathhouse; bathhouse proprietor
bathtub; boat with a bathtub rented to customers (Edo period)
fee charged at a public bath
languid; weary; listless; melancholy
behaviour; behavior; conduct
fierce look; frightening look; tough look; aggressive attitude; coercive attitude; taking a hard line
dried bear's gallbladder (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
cholelithiasis; gallstones
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
to wail; to bawl; to cry loudly; to shout (while crying)
battlefield; battleground
unlimited viewing; watching as much as one likes
opposition; resistance; insubordination; defiance; hostility; rebellion
roasting; grilling; tempering (in metallurgy); -ware; porcelain
benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus
angrily; in a huff; in anger; plump; tender
chopping board; cutting board; flat chest; tiny breasts
to shift (something) from one hand to the other; to carry in a different way; to change one's grip (on); to exchange (what one is holding for something else)
to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)
sharpness; cutting ability; quickness (of wit); incisiveness; peppiness (of a ball)
cutting in round slices; round slice; dividing into groups (e.g. by ability)
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes); shitake
old person (knowledgeable about events of the distant past); elderly person; elder
clever; smart; sharp (ear, etc.); sensitive; discerning
to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged
reeking of blood; stinking of blood; bloody (battle, crime, etc.)
to remain married for life; to live as a married couple until death; to succeed in marrying
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
classroom learning (as contrasted to practical training); classroom lecture; desk study
to go together; to go in company (with); to go along (with)
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
large-scale play; play with an A-list cast; big act; big charade; theatre with a government licence (Edo period)
vague; fuzzy; elusive; slippery
to burn into one's memory; to sear an image