Vocabulary

evening bell; curfew

dinner; evening meal

toward evening

to keep watch; to stand guard

number sign; hash sign; pound sign

coarse oilpaper umbrella

track number; platform number

attendant's booth (in a bathhouse changing room); door-keeper's stand; watcher's seat

entwined roots

savages; barbarians

aborigines village

land of the barbarians

scruffy; unconcerned about one's personal appearance

language spoken by the Emishi

brute courage; recklessness

barbarous custom

rough voice

savage; barbarous; rustic

barbarous customs

savage people

brute force

slaves of the barbarians

bandit; rebel

bandit gang

bandit

self-sacrificing service

to despise; to disdain; to scorn; to hold in contempt; to look down on

to demean; to despise; to treat with contempt; to abase

gluttonous; greedy

common; simple

base metal

my humble opinion

vulgar expression; vulgarism; language used in rural areas

vulgar word; vulgar expression; vulgarism; profanity; swear word

petty; trifling

disparaging form of address; derogatory name; deprecatory word; deprecating language

low class; lowly (position); humble (condition)

vulgar; coarse; low

mean bastard; sneak; heel; despicable person

indecent; obscene