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decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing

2

by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking

2

in the palace

2

woman; girl

4

title of honour; title of honor

1

contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade

5

insulting; derogatory

2

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

1

to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with

2

discriminatory term; discriminatory language

1

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

1

contempt

1

to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back

1

(social) position; status

1

rehabilitation; reinstatement; restoration of rights

1

coverall apron; cook's apron

1

long dress

1

apron; apron (airport); apron (stage)

6

headdress; hair ornament

2

naming; giving a name; designation; nominal

1

to obtain; to procure

2

drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other

2

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

2

fist

3

ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

1

that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such

3

indiscretion; imprudence

1

mid-stream; middle course; middle class

1

this family; we; this house

2

so; like that; that's right; indeed; let me see...

1

only once

1

learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics

5

(arch.) female slave; female servant; housemaid

4

to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out

1

on the least pretext; at the drop of a hat

1

to be idle; to slacken; to neglect (e.g. one's work)

1

novel; (short) story

2

to be absorbed in reading

1

study; diligence; discount; reduction

1

to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)

3

school

3

imprudence; misbehavior; misbehaviour; misunderstanding

1

since then

2

(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all

4

notice or order handed down from above; announcement; notification; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) to the concerned parties

1

to recall; to remember; to recollect

16

poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

1

means; way; measure

3

maidservant

5

servant girl

3