to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect
Izumo Fudoki (description of the culture, climate, etc. of Izumo province; 733 CE)
reason for being; raison d'être
form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
prime of life; era of national prosperity
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member
sensuously beautiful; seductively beautiful; voluptuous
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
high-quality plain-woven hemp cloth
dazzlement; bewilderment; daze
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop
to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store
bow and arrow; weapon; arms
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
command; order; dictation; nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-)
yours sincerely; respectfully yours
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
(arch.) surrounding area; shore (of the sea); suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc.
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)
Tosa (former province located in present-day Kochi Prefecture)
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
to distribute; to arrange; to arrange; to lay out (as in decorating); to marry off; to exile
together with; same; both; all; including ...
old meaning; old interpretation
other party; opposite party; opposing team; one's opponent; one's adversary
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
scarbreast tuskfin (Choerodon azurio)
writing songs or poems; poem
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose