under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
beyond; across; the other side; the distance
strange; unconventional; eccentric; odd; odd number
god who bestows happiness upon people
Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
racketeer; thug; rogue; bully; fixer
refinement; purification; gentle persuasion; winning over; influence
naturalization; naturalisation
China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man
race (of people); type of person
phantom; vision; illusion
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps); mugwort (any plant of genus Artemisia); wormwood; sagebrush
new and old; incoming and outgoing
inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; scan (e.g. MRI, PET, etc.)
perpetual night; continuing all night
Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters; Japan's oldest historical record
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801)
small quantity; little; little while; short distance
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to approach; to draw near
constant; unchanging; eternal
eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; invariant
continuation; continuance; going on; resuming
un-; non-; negative prefix
extinction; discontinuation; severance; rupture; to become extinct; to cease to exist
state; condition; circumstances; sight; spectacle
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
foreign country; foreign land; strange land; far-off land
living thing; organism; creature; biology
songbird; bird with a beautiful song
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
Tajima (former province located in the north of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)