advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
barrier; checkpoint; checking station
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; now
shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
to project; to stick out; to stand out
hatred; abhorrence; loathing; detestation
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
to begin to walk; to set out
visit for no reason; go on fool's errand
to go (come) inside; to step into; to enter
to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high
tasks; things to do; errand; business (to take care of); affairs; engagement
to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)
dubious; puzzled; suspicious
to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)
particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information
roofed mud wall around a villa or temple
head office; main office; main store; this store; our store
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
selection; classification; sorting; screening; triage
Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
staff with plaited paper streamers
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
junction; crossroads; division point; parting of ways
second day of the month; two days
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
to master something (through personal experience)
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
to turn away; to face away; to ignore; to be uncooperative; to be unconciliatory