blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
White Tiger (god said to rule over the western heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the western heavens
Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens
Japan and the Philippines
Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
execution; punishment; spanking
to use somebody's (argument, attack) against them
ideal land; earthly paradise; Utopia; Arcadia
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
letter bearing the shogun's scarlet seal; seal stamp given to worshippers and visitors to shrines and temples
prohibition; ban; embargo
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
running amok (amuck); committing an outrage; rampageous behavior
to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish
there; over there; that place; that far; that much; that point
seven (long cylindrical things)
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity
explanation; interpretation
precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right
economical; efficient; lean; compact
all; entire; whole; altogether
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
godparent; first person to give something its name
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation
container made by cutting a piece of bamboo lengthways; bamboo tube; bamboo cylinder
medicated bath; (medical) decoction; infusion; medicinal hot spring
(arch.) large river (esp. the Yangtze); Lake Biwa
indication; denotation; designation; instructions; directions
greenbottle fly (esp. species Lucilia caesar)
fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
taciturn; reticent; quiet; silent; untalkative
(arch.) dismissal; (arch.) discharge
Tenshō era (1573.7.28-1592.12.8)