idleness; lack of application; lazy study habits
mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition
and so; therefore; for that reason
hero; warrior of matchless valor; heroic character
main; principal; chief; primary; major
Shuten-dōji; mythical Japanese oni (demon) who lived on Mt. Ōe
reason; cause; history; origin
fortune; fate; chance; coincidence; (stroke of) luck
degree of familiarity; popularity; name recognition; notoriety
ups and downs of life; vicissitudes of fortune
misrepresentation; false statement
trifling; little; few; slight
at any rate; in any event; either way; anyway
tradition; folklore; legend; (verbal) message; word (from someone)
ancestor (esp. one's mother or grandmother)
foreign; imported; outpatient; outpatient care; outpatient clinic
to stand in a row (e.g. shops on a street); to line in a row; to line
loosely dangling; lightly swaying; (walking) leisurely; aimlessly; idly; lazily
large amount of money; great cost
to carry around; to carry on one's person
prevention of crime; security (device, camera, etc.)
dividing into four; quartering
bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; outdoors (non-greenhouse cultivation of crops); teahouse garden
basking in the sun; sunbathing
collection of short Heian-period tales in the form of poems
Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)
The Tale of Genji (Heian-period classic)
Tales of Ise (Heian period collection of poems)
to hold (an event); to give (a dinner, party, etc.); to feel (sensation, emotion, call of nature, etc.); to show signs of
Kaguya-Hime (main character of Taketori Monogatari); Princess Kaguya; Kaguyahime (manga series by Reiko Shimizu)
suitor (e.g. for a woman); wooer
grandfather; male senior-citizen; old man
to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
slut; floozie; ho; bitch; witch; overbearing woman