dawn; daybreak; Tenmei era (1781.4.2-1789.1.25)
to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin
battlefield; battleground
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
(Edo-period) town magistrate
directions; instructions; orders; command
various countries; various regions; various provinces
(death from) starvation; starving to death
(United States of) America; USA
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
villa; daimyo's suburban residence
head temple of a sect; (organizational) headquarters; (organisational) headquarters
model; pattern; paragon; exemplar
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice
in these times; in times like these; the season being what it is
(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody
chest; breast; breasts; bosom; heart; lungs; stomach
to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry
second generation; second; junior
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
to give one's name; to introduce oneself; to announce one's candidacy
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
round coin with a (square) hole in the center; coin made of non-precious materials; money
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
dry riverbed; river beach
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
to capture alive; to catch alive; to take prisoner
presence (e.g. of an observer); observation; observer; trading session (at an exchange)
sanity; soundness of mind; prudence and discretion; (arch.) drunkenness
to become used to seeing; to be familiar with
face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
shady; underhanded; questionable