Asuka period (550-710 CE)
exile; banishment; deportation
to carve; to engrave; to sculpt; to tattoo
world history; international history
recitation; reciting from memory
kind; cordial; hospitable; serious (of an illness)
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
wharf; bridge; jetty; pier
departure from a port; leaving port; setting sail
(sea) voyage; navigation; sailing; passage; cruise
ocean conditions; oceanic conditions
entry into port; arriving in harbor
Kuroshio Current; Japan Current
sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current
(sect) founder; apostle; originator; inventor
mountain range; mountain system
Reineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts)
subordinate; secondary; junior; incidental
fifth court rank; black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron; five ranks; five stages
lowness (of degree, value, etc.); inferiority; second volume (of two); third volume (of three)
Republic of Korea; South Korea; Han (ancient Chinese state)
magical power; mystical force
to be jealous of; to envy; to begrudge
false charge; slander; defamation
banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryō system
to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish
setting (someone) to work; employment; using; causative
piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood
collection of stories (esp. myths, legends, etc.)
Nihon Ryōiki (Heian-period collection of Buddhist stories)
upasaka (devout male lay follower of Buddhism)
Mahamayuri (deity usu. depicted riding a peacock)
esoteric Buddhist ritual in which incantations are chanted; magic
gold (metal); gold (color); gold (medal); first place (prize); something of great value; something golden (e.g. silence); money
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
to suspend between two points; to build (a bridge, etc.); to put up on something (e.g. legs up on table)