will you marry me

A stock phrase in Japanese pop culture supposedly used by the wife in a newly-wed couple to invite her new husband to bed.

Kyūjitai form of 私生児 (“illegitimate child”)

You should treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

dotting the i's and crossing the t's

successive series of questions and responses

wielding two swords / a kind of grip in sumo wrestling

Kyūjitai form of 本拠地

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