satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable
bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh
Sakanoue No Tamuramaro (758-811; noble)
commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians (beginning in 794 CE); shogun; great, unifying leader
commander-in-chief; Taishōgun (one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar)
shameful; disgraceful; unsightly; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
river; stream; River; the ... river
retired emperor; ex-emperor; former emperor; emperor emeritus
cloistered rule; government by cloistered emperors
to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly
licensed trade between Japan and Ming dynasty China during the Muromachi period
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
article; goods; fine thing; fellow; (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) price
rebellion; revolt; insurrection; treason
short-lived rule; being in power only for a brief period; brief championship
key; mode (in gagaku); time; tempo; meter (of a poem); metre; style
contest; competition; struggle; scramble
Tempō Reforms (series of government measures; 1841-1843)
lowborn; humble; vulgar; coarse; shabby; poor-looking
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
reform; reformation; reorganization
Her Majesty the Queen; mistress (in S&M); dominatrix
(verbal) abuse; denunciation; disparagement; vilification; scathing criticism
National Mobilization Law
enactment; establishment; creation
war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces
general mobilization; full mobilization
uncle (older than one's parent)
fighting to avenge someone's death; battle of revenge
(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
old master; old teacher; old monk; aged priest
but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just
some; few; a number of; somewhat; to a certain extent; a bit
lowish; somewhat low; on the low side; low (ball)