Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
anniversary of a person's death; monthly return of the date of someone's death
implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery
construction; establishment
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
personage; person (deserving of respect)
handsome; shapely; clean-cut (features); decent; proper; correct
(outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression
to hear a rumor; to get wind of
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
proper; appropriate; due; suitable
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
manager; controller; chief treasurer; boss (of a gambling den)
mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between
while; during (the time when)
to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award
to bear (a child); to be born; to produce; to yield; to be produced
Fujiwara No Hidehira (1033-1187)
military force; force of arms; strength of an army
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)
(historical) army base; navy base
Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands); Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido
leather strap binding the plates of traditional Japanese armor (armour)
true seal (animal); earless seal
feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers
careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
to be in high spirits; to be full of vigor (vigour); to be enthusiastic; to be eager; to stretch to breaking point
(outward) appearance; (proper) format (e.g. of an essay); form; appearances; decency; lip-service
to be lured; to be tempted; to go along with somebody's suggestion; to be talked into doing
to understand; to be satisfied; to be convinced
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
forgetting; lapse of memory
pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)