to be bewildered; to be perplexed
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
cupboard; locker; closet; wardrobe; cabinet
wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)
locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors
open air; outdoors; outside
counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.
locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors
storage room; storeroom; closet; grayish blue
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
detached house; stand-alone house; single-family home
true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo
Seto Inland Sea; Inland Sea
content-free chat; idle gossip
slatted shutter; louver door (window)
sliding door (esp. when removed from its frame and used for carrying things or people); large flounder
non-drinker; someone who cannot drink
window screen; insect screen; mosquito screen; screen; screen door
Edo shogunate (1603-1867)
rogue; thug; hoodlum; punk; racketeer
earthenware; porcelain; china; pottery; crockery
official copy of the family register
merry drinker; one who laughs easily
main door at the front of a house; front shutters
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
to open the door (to the world, women, etc.)
(heavy) drinker; tippler; ... drinker (e.g. merry drinker, maudlin drinker); ... drunk; liker of; fan
houses and inhabitants; population
maudlin drinker; person who is prone to crying when drunk
number of households (houses)
(separate) house; detached house
Gate of the Celestial Rock Cave
box (built-in) for containing shutters
well digging; well digger
garden gate made of branches and twigs; wicket gate
doors and shoji (sliding doors with paper panes)
gate money; admission fee
true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo
not in the family register; lacking a family register
a well equipped with a pulley for drawing water
air-damper (e.g. in chimney); (arch.) wind door; (arch.) door through which wind blows, e.g. to cool a room
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern
(pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home; door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace
true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo
family registry (of the district); original of one's family register; archive of family registers
small cupboard on wall of tokonoma
to bust down a door; to break a door open
garden gate made of branches and twigs; wicket gate
to close the door (to); to shut the door (to); to exclude
gap (in a mountain ridge)
door-to-door visit; door-to-door canvassing (canvasing)
official copy of part of family register
dwelling unit (esp. in apartment block, etc.)
family registration official
type of faceted glass from Edo
gravity well (e.g. of a planet)
latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture)
Little Edo; town or neighbourhood with an old townscape reminiscent of Edo
bluish-violet; royal purple
grayish blue; greyish blue
breakwater; seawall; bulwark; mole; narrow stone structure for breaking incoming waves and loading goods on and off ships
Imado (part of Edo) unglazed porcelain; Imado ware
bamboo door; door or screen made of fine bamboo strips, allowing air to pass through
one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register
true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo
to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)
paper sliding door for the cupboard of a tokonoma
house-to-house; door-to-door; each house
eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld)
widespread fires in Edo (often after earthquakes); (lit.) flowers of Edo
true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo
bamboo door; door or screen made of fine bamboo strips, allowing air to pass through
artesian well; tapped well
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
earthenware; porcelain; china; pottery; crockery
to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest; (lit.) to attack the Edo enemy in Nagasaki
national census; door-to-door census
door made of interlaced reeds, bamboo, etc.
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
push-up door; roll-up shutter
ruffian; scoundrel; rogue; rascal; villain; hoodlum
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
semi-detached house; double house
doorstop; door stop; door stopper
household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier
trapdoor; trap door; flap door
(separate) house; detached house
you can't control what people say; you can't stop rumours (rumors)
fires and fistfights are the flowers of Edo
small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage; small garden gate
census-taking; examining family registers
to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest; (lit.) to attack the Edo enemy in Nagasaki
standard measurement for the distance between pillars in eastern Japan (approx. 182 cm); Kanto-size tatami mat (approx. 176 cm by 88 cm)
double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)
sash roller; door roller; roller for a sliding door
semi-detached house; double house
ceramic ware from Seto (Aichi Prefecture)
the economic boom of 1958-1961
door made of one or several wooden planks and no door framework
push-up door; roll-up shutter
artesian well; tapped well
garden gate made of branches and twigs; wicket gate
extremely heavy drinker; insatiable drinker
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
have a pass to; have access to
tradesman (in the ritsuryō system)
stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side; rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji)
type of faceted glass from Edo
swinging door; double action door
top-hinged window shutter (often held open with a pole)
rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)
ceramic ware from Seto (Aichi Prefecture)
trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae); folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
Edo chrysanthemum; variety of chrysanthemum originally cultivated in Edo; China aster (Callistephus chinensis)
small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage; small garden gate
wharf; quay; landing-stage; jetty
detached house; stand-alone house; single-family home
houses and inhabitants; population
houses and inhabitants; population
maudlin drinker; person who is prone to crying when drunk
extensions on the top and bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge)
gap (in a mountain ridge)
doorstop; door stop; door stopper
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)
to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest; (lit.) to attack the Edo enemy in Nagasaki
artesian well; tapped well
door made of interlaced reeds, bamboo, etc.
trapdoor; trap door; flap door
trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae); folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)
Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji)
unsold apartment (usu. newly built); remaining apartments (unsold)
fireweed (Erechtites hieracifolia); burnweed; pilewort
door (with a pivot hinge)
top-hinged window shutter (often held open with a pole)
person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well; person who can drink much alcohol without becoming tipsy
original source of re-established family register; old family register
Iris ensata; Edo Japanese iris
batten door; battened door; ledged door; strong door with crosspieces placed on the reverse side
type of public bath from the Edo period
runner (of a sliding door); tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
household with at least one member subject to taxation (ritsuryo system)
en plein air; plein air painting
climate of the Setouchi Region
Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)
Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)
even an unruly horse can be tamed
even an unruly horse can be tamed
eating a lot, drinking a lot, and on top of that, eating mochi
don't act all high and mighty just because you don't drink; (lit.) no teetotaler has (ever) built a storehouse
don't act all high and mighty just because you don't drink; (lit.) no teetotaler has (ever) built a storehouse
a teetotaler doesn't know (how tasty) water is when waking up after having been drunk
drinkers drink too much (and harm themselves in the process), nondrinkers drink too little (and miss out on the medicinal benefits of alcohol)
everyone drinks at least a little bit; (lit.) ghosts and non-drinkers do not exist
everyone drinks at least a little bit; (lit.) ghosts and non-drinkers do not exist
sharpnose sevengill shark (Heptranchias perlo)
Solanum lyratum (species of nightshade)
Sebastes joyneri (genus of fish); rockfish
Sebastes joyneri (genus of fish); rockfish
Sebastes joyneri (genus of fish); rockfish
Japanese mole (Mogera wogura); Temminck's mole
Japanese foxtail (Alopecurus japonicus)
Japanese foxtail (Alopecurus japonicus)
liker of; fan; enthusiast; -phile