irritating; exasperating

嬉し泣き: crying for happiness

嬉し泣き: to cry for happiness

拘置所: jail; detention facility

借景: borrowed scenery

高利貸し: usurer, loan shark

the result of rendering Classical Chinese text into Japanese using kanbun kundoku

真田虫, 絛虫, 条虫: a tapeworm

繰り返し, 繰返し, 繰返: repetition

白妙の, 白栲の: cloth or clothes dyed white, alludes to 衣 (koromo, “robe”), 袖 (sode, “sleeve”), 襷 (tasuki, “cord to tuck up a sleeve”), 袂 (tamoto, “sleeve pocket”), 紐 (himo, “cord, string”), 肩巾, 領布 (hire, “shawl”), etc.; the color white, alludes to 雲 (kumo, “clouds”), 波 (nami, “waves”), 浜の真砂 (hama no masago, “grains of sand at a beach”), 雪 (yuki, “snow”), etc.; homophonic wordplay element relating to the paper mulberry, alludes to 藤江の浦 (Fujie-no-ura), 黄鶏 (kashiwa, “chicken meat”), words prefixed with 夕 (yū, “evening”), etc.