guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
cheap restaurant; eating place (house)
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
living together (with one more person)
life story; personal narrative; story of one's life
household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
Hiroshima (city, prefecture)
Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze; Wu; Southern Wu; Wu; Eastern Wu
going to war; departure for the front; departure for military service (in response to a draft)
a blink of time; (lit.) the time it takes to say "Ah!"
to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
seeing one off; farewell; escort
a particular; a certain; that kind of; such a
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
to appear ...; to look like ...; to seem ...; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
bachelorhood; single; unmarried; celibate
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
clear; obvious; evident; bright; light
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
sometimes; occasionally; at times; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)
wistful; desirous of; hungry-looking; greedy-looking
look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes
surreptitious glance; looking furtively
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still; fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think); patiently (endure); stoically
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
miserable; wretched; lonely; dreary; shabby; comfortless
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine