abandoning (hope, plans); giving up
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
death and injury; being killed or injured
skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
to walk about; to walk around; to conduct oneself; to act; to stop by (somewhere; esp. of a criminal on the run); to drop by
risk ratio; percentage of risk; hazard rate; significance level; level of significance
hero; the brave; man of valour (valor)
not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling
the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields
spare time; free time; time (it takes to do something); time required; time off; leave; dismissal
someone; a certain person
adverse circumstances; unfortunate situation; adversity
monarch; sovereign; ruler; liege (lord)
bowstring; string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.); bail (arched pot handle); diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu
great mountain; large mountain
nth year in the Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25)
quiet; calm; leisurely; distant; far-off; boundless
absentmindedness; preoccupation; setting one's mind at ease; ceasing to worry; (arch.) loss of one's moral sense; (arch.) straying from virtue
to take a breath; to take a short rest
somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other
all over the country; everywhere in the country; throughout the nation
Tenshō era (1573.7.28-1592.12.8)
hunting; hunt; gathering (mushrooms, shellfish, etc.); picking (berries, fruit, etc.); hunting down (a criminal, etc.); rounding up (e.g. communists)
foot soldier (Edo period); samurai on foot
hills and fields; countryside
(the) way home; return trip; (the) way back
every house; each household
kneeling down on the ground; prostrate oneself
outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); outriding; harbinger; herald; anticipation
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
seeing in the dark; night vision
white hair; grey hair; gray hair
carelessness; careless mistake; blunder; wetting oneself; soiling oneself
edge of the eaves; house frontage
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
one's own faction (of a party)
to sob; to never stop crying; to cry on and on
to bend forward; to stoop; to bow