individual; private person; personal; private
losing weight; slimming; lean person
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
genuine article; real thing; real deal
Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
wall clock; grandfather clock
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
Buddhist (household) altar
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
class system; caste system; hierarchical system
to complete decisively; to do to completion
(much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely; unusually
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
Tsugaru (Western region of Aomori Prefecture)
occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
polish; improvement; burnishing
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
composition; piece of music; tune; melody; enjoyment; fun
condition; figure; appearance; voice
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes
wooden; made of wood; wooden construction
new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
song lyrics; words of a song; libretto
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
abuse; ill-treatment; maltreatment; mistreatment; cruelty
divorce; dissolution of adoption
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
sympathy; compassion; pity
violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement
at that time; in those days