holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors
ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer
garden lantern; hanging lantern
bamboo steamer; steaming basket; wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot; soba served on a small wickerwork tray; wickerwork tray (for serving soba)
inro; seal case; pill box; medicine case
solid; strong; sturdy; durable; stout
holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors
(Edo-period) room for confining criminals or lunatics
staying at home or indoors; living in seclusion; retirement
medicine chest (container)
prison guard; jailer; gaoler
dungeon; underground prison
(punishment by being placed in a) water-filled chamber
jail made by placing bars across a cave entrance; cave prison
garden lantern; hanging lantern
retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer
(Edo-period) head of a prisoners' group
precinct of a jail; vicinity of a prison
breaking out of prison; jailbreak
dungeon; underground prison
keeping in mind; taking note of; remembering; taking to heart
(Edo-period) jail warden; jailer
jail for women (Edo period)
whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture)
gabion; cage filled with stones
locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; (lit.) mending the pen after the sheep are lost