Juza Unno: 5 works in the original Japanese, with translation

At the entrance of old-style sentō (public baths) there was a 'getabiki' attendant, a boy who looked after the shoes customers took off. He was usually a relative of the owner or a helper's child, a common sight in sentō of the early Shōwa period.

Refers to Emperor Taishō. He died in December 1926 and was buried in February 1927 at the Tama Mausoleum near Asakawa (present-day Hachiōji City) in western Tokyo. The phrase "twenty years ago" in the text takes this event as its point of reference.

Refers to emphasis marks placed alongside characters (called 圏点 or 傍点 in Japanese), used for emphasis. In the text, the invitation deliberately adds 圏点 to the word “真相” (truth), showing that the sender intentionally stressed it.

From the Meiji era onward, Japanese elementary schools taught a "shūshin" (moral training) subject, with textbooks inculcating virtues such as diligence, worldly success, loyalty, and filial piety. Here, "the crystallisation of a moral training textbook" and "a path to success and honour as precise as a textbook" refer to a model life planned according to official moral norms—something readers in the early Shōwa period would grasp at once.