God; god; ace; king; superior person
bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding money; red ink; selling below cost
(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much
eighth day of the month; eight days
only; merely; but; no more than
(arch.) countenance; (arch.) visage; face; honor (honour); dignity
poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite
to death (bored, scared, etc.); to distraction; like crazy; like mad; so much; dying (e.g. for a drink)
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
gradually; slowly but steadily
effect; virtue; efficacy; impression
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
to make trouble; to make waves; to cause discord
disorder; disturbance; unrest
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
to think, feel, consider, know, etc.
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
conviction; belief; confidence
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
appointment; assignment; promotion
dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito); big three; top three
three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi)
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
brigadier general; commodore
army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
recommendation (of a person for a position); nomination
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)
those (near the second person)
premeditated murder; deliberate murder; willful murder; wilful murder
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain
number of people; population; human head
politics; government; peace; (arch.) medical treatment; (arch.) cure