宮本武蔵 08 円明の巻 – Vocabulary list

extreme; excessive; terrible; intense; severe; serious

3

to face (each other); to be facing; to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to receive (a client, etc.); to compare with

4

剛ごう健けん

vigour; vigor; virility; health; sturdiness

1

軽けい薄はく

frivolous; flippant; superficial; shallow; trifling; insincere

1

典てん型けい的てき

typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model

1

執たらし

bow (and arrow; esp. of a noble)

3

一いっ昨さく夜や

night before last

5

思し慮りょ

prudence; discretion; thought

3

毛もう頭とう

(not) in the least; (not) at all; (not) a bit

2

凝ぎょう視し

stare; gaze; fixation

4

はためく

to flutter (e.g. a flag)

1

口くち重おもい

slow of speech; prudent

1

前ぜん提てい

condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)

1

死し亡ぼう届とどけ

report of death; notification of a death

1

相あい手て方かた

other party; opposite party; opposing team; one's opponent; one's adversary

5

貴き公こう

you (primarily used by males when addressing their male equals or inferiors)

4

との事こと

I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said

2

承しょう

second line of a four-line Chinese poem

2

住すまい

dwelling; house; residence; living; life

1

話はなしだす

to begin talking; to open up

1

聞きき出だす

to get information out of a person; to begin listening

1

故ゆえに

therefore; consequently

1

闇やみ討うち

attack under the cover of darkness; surprise attack; sneak attack

1

厳げん重じゅう

strict; severe; stringent; rigorous; rigid; firm

1

調ちょう査さ

investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey

1

客きゃく分ぶん

treatment as a guest; guest

3

みやけ

house of a prince of the blood

1

仁じん

benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus

2

じん

kidney

2

門もん人じん

pupil; student; follower

12

次し第だいに

gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn

2

明めい確かく

clear; precise; definite; distinct

2

直じき弟で子し

personal pupil

1

子し弟てい

children; sons; (lit.) children and younger brothers; young people

1

門もん流りゅう

branch of a school

3

変へん名めい

assumed name; alias

1

蓮れん台だい

lotus-shaped pedestal for images of the Buddha

1

三さん十じゅう三さん間げん堂どう

Sanjusangen-do (hall in Kyoto)

2

相あい次つぐ

to follow in succession; to happen one after another

1

そのもの

the very thing; itself

4

断だん絶ぜつ

extinction; discontinuation; severance; rupture; to become extinct; to cease to exist

1

今いまなお

still; even now

3

怨えん恨こん

enmity; grudge

1

口くち火び

fuse; pilot light; cause (of a war, argument, revolt, etc.); origin; trigger

1

根こん気き

patience; perseverance; persistence; tenacity; energy

2

失しっ敗ぱい

failure; mistake; blunder

1

帰かえす

to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home

6

拳けん法ぽう

Chinese martial arts; kung fu; wushu; kenpō (martial arts); kempo

1

行ゆく先さき々ざき

everywhere; everywhere one goes; wherever one goes

1

盛さかん

prosperous; flourishing; popular; widespread; active; lively

1

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Vocabulary list: 宮本武蔵 08 円明の巻