Vocabulary

party; set; gang; company; person

cheating heart; fleeting heart; fickle heart

non-fruit-bearing flower; sterile flower

being empty-handed; bare hands (in a fight)

being empty-handed

wade across

conspirators; faction; cabal; clique

kegs of sake; lot of sake

careless; negligent

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

ferryman

wanderer

to wander from place to place; to change jobs

crossing a river

making one's way in the world; (making a) living; (earning a) livelihood

truancy

mountain climber

directory; inventory

betting; gambling

broken; interrupted; disconnected; intermittent; fragmentary; discontinuous

stopover (during a train or bus journey)

extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd

graceful; sophisticated

city style; metropolitan

Tokyo meeting hall

leaving (fleeing) the capital

whetstone; grindstone

hard worker; hardworking person

extreme; ultra; mega; totally; very much; precisely

to go too far

to go too far; to go to excess

histogram

to astonish; to astound; to stupefy; to flabbergast; to strike a person dumb; to dumbfound

lapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind; forgetting for a moment something one knows well

lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind

broad-mindedness

weights and measures

lump of earth; clod

drowned body of a person

landslide