Vocabulary

toy balloon

toad venom (used as an analgesic and cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine)

ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period)

maple-leaf viewing

intrinsic goodness

love romance; love story; romance; romance story; romantic fiction

remains after cutting something

remains; fragment; remains after having cut something

blushing (with shyness); flushed face

meridian flow (in traditional Chinese medicine)

Governor vessel (traditional Chinese medicine); Du Meredian; Dumaixue

pressing forward without giving a chance to explain

club journal; club notebook

being afraid and panicked

modest word; humble language

being struck with awe

young female servant

wooden bridge (with planks)

national census; door-to-door census

depopulation; falling population; decrease in population; population decline

thoughts; feelings

long poem

vermilion tray

sound when stopping the blade of a sword with the guard

pawn; pledge (given as security)

seriously sick person

coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

how old; what age

casual dish (esp. Japanese food); simple dish

front door

one sleeve

person in charge of warming sake in a bar

brass band

ugliness

metric horsepower (approx. 735W); PS

French horse-power; metric horsepower

God's will

accumulating good deeds; doing good

daily employment; hiring by the day; day's wages

being based in Osaka; being in Osaka