faithful; devoted; loyal; honest; true
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
remodeling; remodelling; restructuring; modding
Bungeishunju (publishing company and magazine)
several times; a few times
quotation; citation; reference
refutation; rebuttal; retort
expectation; assume will happen; forecast
strictly; severely; fully; closely; tightly
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
to take all things together; to include everything; to take account of everything
this (very thing); this precisely
confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)
a lot; many; (not) much; (not) many; almost (none)
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
how long; how far; how much
multicolumn layout; column setting
type; pattern; shape; similar type; similar pattern
great swordsman; master fencer
matter; thing; affair; circumstance
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
to kill; to defeat; to beat
master; expert; mansion; large house; rich family; distinguished family
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543.1.31-1616.6.1), Shougun 1603-1605
entry into the sanctum of a shrine or temple; access to the imperial court
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument
rough fence of bamboo, logs, etc. constructed at battle sites or execution grounds
official bulletin board (esp. Edo period); highest bid; highest tender; your letter
counter for books; volume
temple elementary school (during the Edo period)
on the way back; returning
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
to run; to dash; to gallop (on horseback); to canter; (arch.) to advance (against one's enemy); (arch.) to charge (on horseback)
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
to apologize; to apologise
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead