mansion; palace; (arch.) nobleman; (arch.) noblewoman; (arch.) temporary residence
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; impulse
Tenchō era (824.1.5-834.1.3)
foreign enemy; outside invader
to brush away; to sweep aside; to repel (e.g. enemy); to drive away; to rout
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); feline; shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom (submissive partner of a homosexual relationship)
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
badger; Eurasian badger (Meles meles); anaguma castle (defensive opening)
drawing water; black cotton hat (used as a prop)
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
to dig out; to gouge out; to scoop; to ladle; to jerk (one's chin)
decisive action; carrying out; resolute enforcement; execution
expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
to work hard; to be diligent; to do one's best; to try one's hardest; to exert oneself
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake
average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how
one's say; one's point; although; though
with a start; with a jump
wrong idea; delusion; indiscretion; false step; misstep
ocean; large sea; fabric pattern
for some reason or other; somehow; whatsitsname; what-you-call-it; and so on; and you know the rest
Kantō (region comprising Tokyo and surrounding prefectures); Kantō (eastern half of Japan; during the feudal era)
bottom; buttocks; bidet function (for anal cleansing)
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
anxiety (about the future)
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
war funds; war chest; funds (for activities); campaign funds
March; third month of the lunar calendar
member of shogun's council of elders
marquis; second highest rank of the five ranks of nobility; daimyo
Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
the first to thrust a spear (at the enemy); the first to achieve fame; the first to achieve merit
nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyo; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world
certain; sure; no doubt; reliable; dependable