painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
pipe; tube; gun barrel; gun; cannon; well lining
to put clothes on (someone); to dress; to cover; to coat; to pin (e.g. a crime on someone); to lay (blame)
summoning; calling; riding; (high-quality) silk crepe (fabric)
novel; original; striking; strange; eccentric; fantastic
to accompany; to go with; to go together
kimono fabrics shop; draper
store; shop; stoa (classical Greek colonnade or portico); store; Stoic
mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but
San'etsu (the three former provinces of Echizen, Etchū and Echigo)
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
carpet; rug; mat, mattress, quilt etc. spread out on the floor (or ground) and used to sit or sleep on; spread; (cloth) cover
(formal) shirt; dress shirt; business shirt; button-up shirt
street; quarter; district; area
foreign settlement; concession; reservation (e.g. American Indian)
taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...
flour; meal; powder; dust
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
fishing; gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed); catch (e.g. of fish); haul
to have an eye on; to zero in on
window; window (shop display)
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
fabric; cloth; textiles; measure of kimono material
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
to banter; to make fun of; to cool; to refrigerate; to window-shop; to look at without buying
easily (reach, exceed, etc.); comfortably; amply; fully; well over
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
cotton; cotton pads (usu. in amenity set); cotton buds
to boil (cook); voile (type of fabric)
dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious