touching

A monotone prologue with fragmentary samisen accompaniment, used in 浄瑠璃 (Jōruri, “a type of puppet theater”) and other performance types.

foreword, preface, prologue

new, novel / latest, recent / modern / fresh

(archaic) new, novel / (archaic) latest, recent / (archaic) modern / (archaic) fresh

(obsolete) Alternative spelling of 新たし (aratashi): new, novel

(obsolete) Same as あたらし (atarashi) above

extraordinary, unusual

emergency

very; extremely / exceedingly; tremendously