情緒: atmosphere; emotion / 浄書: clean copy / 上書: memorial to the throne

浄書: to clean up the draft / 上書: to memorialize the emperor; to submit a document to one's higher authorities

A wicked or an ugly woman. / A bad-natured woman.

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

愛女: beloved daughter