ringing of a bell; bell ringer
fellow; mutual; companion; comrade
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
street performer (comedian)
group; flock; crowd; wide expanse (of flowers)
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
every person; each one; everybody
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
religious-fund soliciting; Buddhist preaching
diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; narrow (e.g. thinking); small
lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk; Latin (language)
sutra; Buddhist scriptures
mock Buddhist sutra; type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events; ahodarakyō
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
about the same; about equal to; close match
occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
fighting windmills; tilting at windmills; mimicking a wrestling match by oneself (as a form of street performance, etc.)
slipping out the back way with swindled goods
Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)
Chinese person; (arch.) foreigner
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
great god; gracious deity; miracle-working god
strength; power; proficiency; ability
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
propagation (e.g. a religion); proselytizing; missionary work
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
Hiroshima (city, prefecture)
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
counter for jewels in a watch; counter for transistors, diodes, etc. in an electronic product
stock-in-trade; tools of one's trade
six feet; traditional Japanese G-string for men; palanquin bearer