loyalty; devotion; fidelity; inspector of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (ritsuryo system)
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus
government official; public official
however; nevertheless; but; and yet; whereas; while
wickedness; evil; wicked person
to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about
official business; public business
spare time; free time; leisure
The End; Finis; completion; conclusion; providing fully
alcohol and meat; food and drink
fishing; gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed); catch (e.g. of fish); haul
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
power; authority; might; influence; dignity; majesty
to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it
to let dry; to kill (vegetation); to season (lumber)
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
tea party; get-together; tea ceremony
kindness; intimacy; friendship
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
to meet (someone of higher status); (arch.) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); (arch.) to be visible; (arch.) to be seen
to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
drunkenness; intoxication; motion sickness; travel sickness
a little; a bit; somewhat; slightly; rather
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
dangling; aimlessly; casually; unexpectedly
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
front and rear; before and after; order; sequence; consequences; context
defect; demerit; weak point; disadvantage