Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
body double; double; wire puller; person behind the scenes; shadow commander
Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens
traveling about to gain skill in combat (travelling)
trembling with excitement
mounted warrior; cavalier; knight
fleeing soldier; warrior fleeing the battlefield; deserter
reckless; daredevil; frantic; foolhardy
Emperor Jimmu; legendary founding Emperor of Japan
Kenmu era (of unified Japan; 1334.1.29-1336.2.29); Kenmu era (of the Northern Court; 1336.2.29-1338.8.28)
daredevil; foolhardy warrior; hotspur
Kenmu Restoration (1333-1336)
warrior picture (genre of ukiyo-e); musha-e
to grab at; to clutch; to grapple with
samurai drill; knight errantry
Japanese cobra lily (Arisaema ringens)
since the era of the Emperor Jimmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented
Emperor Jimmu's eastern expedition (starting in Hyuga in 607 BCE, ending with the unification of Yamato)
Mushakōjisenke school of tea ceremony
Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3, the supposed day of his death)
Musashino Women's College (abbr)
Musashi Women's Junior College
Musashino Women's College
Jimmu Boom (economic boom of the mid-1950s)
Musashino Academia Musicae
Musashi Technical College
hunting down of defeated soldiers (to kill and loot them)
Junior College of Art and Design of Musashino Art University
when you are in a state of fear, the smallest thing will startle you; (lit.) a fleeing soldier takes fright even from a head of silver grass
Nutrition College Musashino
black-throated loon (Gavia arctica); Arctic loon