Vocabulary

imminent danger; impending hardship

person or thing in imminent danger; fish on the chopping board

approximately thirty minutes

pancreatic cancer

acupuncturist and practitioner of moxibustion

custodial duties

to bribe

to lead (a man) around by the nose

anticipation; expectation

buttocks; lower back; waist; hips

to ensconce oneself (e.g. in a chair); to settle oneself down; to plant oneself

to wheedle a person into doing something

cylinder (of a revolver)

to etch into one's mind; to remember well

loanword; loan word; borrowed word; borrowing

to be confused; to be baffled; to be dumbfounded; to be bewildered; to be bewitched by a fox

small person acting arrogantly on someone else's authority; person who borrows the authority of another to browbeat others; a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger

like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; fox pups have white cheeks

trusting a cat with milk; setting a wolf to mind the sheep; (giving) rice boiled with adzuki beans to a fox

unexpected good fortune

cooking (something) to a golden brown; something cooked until it's golden brown

stray arrow

small (latticework) window placed up high

way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window

changing weather; fickle weather

good thing; nice thing

power; authority; might; influence; dignity; majesty

to make a cutting remark; to kill someone with a short blade

confronting directly; meeting face-to-face

nothing one can say (e.g. about something perfect); not a thing one can complain about; better than one could hope for

not doing as one is told; disobedient; unruly

unusually; extraordinarily; uncommonly

worry; concern; trouble

burial at sea

crude cylindrical coffin (hastily made); cheap coffin; makeshift casket

spring "tsuchinoe" day that falls closest to the vernal equinox (a day of religious significance for harvests)

New Year's Eve

great talent

great disaster

guardian deity of grain farming; guardian deity of the rice harvest