opportunity; chance; folding; fold; small food box (wooden or cardboard); folding in ... (two, three, etc.); counter for folded items
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning
violent conduct; misconduct; dissipation; profligacy; debauchery
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
circulation; dissemination
territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
finally; in the end; on top of all that
strange disease; rare disease
to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; demon; devil
you; you bastard; you son of a bitch; (arch.) you
mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae); Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger); hollyhock
(family) crest; coat of arms; pattern; figure
to put up (a notice, sign, etc.); to hang out (e.g. a banner); to hold up high; to raise overhead; to tout (a principle, plan, etc.); to herald; to publish
qualifications; requirements; capabilities
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
certainly; surely; definitely
to receive divine punishment
Edo shogunate (1603-1867)
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
to end one's life; to commit suicide; to end a life; to kill
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
that's true; of course; obviously
genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
to bloom; to flower; to blossom; to open
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
expresses incredulousness, disbelief, irony, etc.
to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)
samsara; cycle of death and rebirth; being reborn; reincarnation
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk