Vocabulary

two o'clock

great success; roaring business

investment industry

sheep's milk

popularity stakes; rating

wandering ghost

creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)

creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)

imperial prince's family; family of a prince of royal blood

to spin (e.g. ramie, hemp, etc.)

family affairs; family business

High Court (of Kamakura); Board of Inquiry

administrator of a manor

medium-ranked councillor in the Department of State

legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State

steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period)

mid-sized store

storefront; front of a store

shunga book; pornographic book

toy bow archery range (sometimes front for a brothel)

true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo

demon who brings misfortune to houses or people he passes by

(Chinese) poetry and rhymed prose

start; beginning; origin

opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

mining studies; mining engineering; mining science

entrance to a bedroom; bedroom

ice cream mixed with adzuki bean paste

spring water (from melting snow)

resistance; opposition

sworn elder brother

local dialect; vernacular; provincialism

(true) Tokyoite; Edoite; Tokyo native

ramie fibre (fiber)

forced to use; forced into a position

high quality hemp cloth from Miyakojima (Okinawa prefecture)

public bath located in a city or town

bundle of straw used as mulch

blackboard

butcher specializing in beef; dealer in beef