bizarre plan; perplexing strategy; outlandish scheme
man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
unpreparedness; falsehood; Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
nth generation; nth (person to occupy a position, e.g. president)
(present) head of a family
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland
the Kojiki and Nihon-shoki
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
unusual form; different shape; variant (e.g. kanji, kana)
book; volume; this; present; main; head
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to collect; to assemble; to gather
to start a journey; to embark on a trip; to set forth; to hit the trail
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
to pass (of time); to elapse
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
territory; autonomous region
Izumo (former province located in the east of present-day Shimane Prefecture)
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent
one's possessions; ownership
sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor