fearfully; nervously; timidly; gingerly
to explain; to preach; to advocate; to persuade; to prevail upon; to reason with
decoration; ornament; trimmings
black; black stone; guilt; guilty person
bitter orange (Citrus aurantium); sour orange; Seville orange; orange (color, colour)
taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
to face each other; to be opposite (to)
glance; look; glimpse; complete view; bird's-eye view
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
now (esp. in contrast to the past); now at last; at present; right now
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
grabbing hold; eagle grip; tight hold
still (continuing); as ever; further
party (social gathering); party (group of people participating in an activity, esp. mountain climbing); (political) party
to dish up; to arrange (food) on a plate
to cut out; to clip from; to extract
etc.; et cetera; and so on
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
ramune; type of lemon soda sold in a Codd-neck bottle; compressed tablet candy; glucose tablet
blackberry (esp. the common blackberry, Rubus fruticosus)
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
belly; stomach; inside of the abdomen; one's mind; one's heart; one's innermost thoughts
to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (the contents); to tell everything; to open one's heart; to reveal (a secret, the truth, etc.)
bloodstained; bloody; covered with blood
to swell up; to bulge; to swell (of a budget, population, etc.); to increase significantly; to balloon
turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
(one's) favourite food; (one's) favorite food