house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
entreaty; appeal; petition
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
self restraint; moderating one's behaviour; penitence; confinement to one's home; house arrest
allegiance; obedience; submission
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect
to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)
moral duty; moral obligations; justification; pretext; just cause
have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary
to think, feel, consider, know, etc.
all; everything; entirety; absolutely (not); (not) at all; (none) whatsoever
to deliver; to extradite; to stretch across; to hand over
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
to prepare for death; to get ready to die
to capitulate; to surrender; to submit to; to concede
only; merely; just; at most; no more than
piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper
one thin flat object; one sheet
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
result; consequence; coming to fruition; bearing fruit; as a result; consequently
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
all-out attack; general offensive
March; third month of the lunar calendar
fifteenth day of the month; fifteen days
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
advance guard; vanguard; athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)
party; group; crew; company (of troops); corps; unit
Sunpu (old name for Shizuoka City)
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)