to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
the rounds of tradesmen going door to door; route man; door-to-door tradesman; thief taker; secret policeman
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
guard; sentinel; garrison
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching
leading; prominent; eminent; counting on one's fingers
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
foreign enemy; outside invader
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
daytime; during the day; Japan and China
going around; patrol; round; tour
royal capital; imperial capital
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
river; stream; River; the ... river
discovery; detection; finding
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
agricultural land; farmland
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
megalopolis; megacity; supercity
vitality; energy; dynamism
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
comfortable (to live in); snug; cozy; cosy
striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on
wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
dark (skin, complexion, etc.); swarthy; tanned
semi-transparent; translucent
(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; older (than); senior
resolute; firm; dauntless; undaunted
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
to understand from experience
heathen; heretic; pagan; nonconformist; freethinker; iconoclast
fast (walking); quick; brisk; quick (passing of time); rapid; swift
street stall; stand; booth
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action