斯んな事で時間が掛つて歸りは夕飯の時刻になりました。奥さんは私に對する御禮に何か御馳走すると云つて、木原店といふ寄席のある狹い横丁へ私を連れ込みました。横丁も狹いが、飯を食はせる家も狹いものでした。此邊の地理を一向心得ない私は、奥さんの知識に驚ろいた位です。
translation
"Things like that took time, and it was time for dinner." Okusan offered me a treat as a reward, and took me to the Kihara store, a narrow alley with a vaudeville theater. The alleys were narrow, and so were the houses that provided food. As someone who doesn't know the geography of this area at all, I was astonished by her knowledge.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 時間: time (じかん), hour, period, class, lesson | 掛: credit (かけ), money owed on an account, bill, hanger, holder | 夕飯: evening meal (ゆうはん), evening meal (ゆうめし), dinner, dinner, supper |
| 奥: inner part (おく), interior, back (of a drawer, one’s throat, etc.), depths (e.g. of a forest), recesses (e.g. of a cave) | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 對: versus (たい), against, vs., v., to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180) | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing |
| 寄席: entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.) (よせ), entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.) (よせせき), vaudeville theater (theatre), vaudeville theater (theatre), music hall | 横丁: bystreet (よこちょう), side street, back street, alley, lane | 連: two reams (of paper) (れん), 1000 sheets (of paper), stanza, verse, tribe (in taxonomy) | 飯: cooked rice (めし), meal, food, one’s living, livelihood |
| 家: house (いえ), residence, dwelling, family, household | 地理: geography (ちり) | 一向: intently (ひたすら), single-mindedly, devotedly, solely, earnestly | 心得: knowledge (こころえ), understanding, rules, regulations, guideline |
| 知識: knowledge (ちしき), information | 位: throne (くらい), crown, (nobleman’s) seat, government position, court rank |