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decreasing land prices

children do not know how dear they are to their parents (and therefore act selfishly)

intermediate

field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)

middleman

fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories

chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants)

to be open (to traffic)

fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan)

first day of winter (approx. November 8)

small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar

another helping

to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out)

to have a bad time

annual function

Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane)

main

see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil

passing (along the way)

cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey

to rustle

kindness begets kindness

large front gate

scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture

rough fence of bamboo, logs, etc. constructed at battle sites or execution grounds

to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end)

application developer

highest ranking prostitute in Edo's Yoshiwara red-light district (from the Hōreki era onward)

Perciformes (order of perch and perch-like fish)

twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)