次女: second-born daughter / 自序: an author's preface / 自助: self-help, self-reliance / 侍女: a lady-in-waiting, a lady's maid

(slang) prison

(Kagoshima, Miyazaki) the elderly

廃墟:remains / 廃去:to abandon

刀鋸: a blade and saw; such weapons as used for punishment and torture in ancient China / 逃去: leaving a place by running away, fleeing / 淘去: washing away

淘去: washing away

尾閭: a hole that is said to be located at the bottom of the ocean where all water is endlessly leaking away without ever being exhausted.

仙女: a nymph; a fay; a fairy or female elf; a female sage

芟除: / 洗除: / 剪除:

仙女: a nymph; a fay; a fairy or female elf; a female sage / 芟除: / 洗除: / 剪除: / 賤女: / 選叙: / 蟾蜍: toad