to beg; to ask; to request; to invite
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
to hear; to be told; to know; to receive (order); to undertake; to comply
elegance; dandyism; sophistication; affectation; showing off; putting on an air
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
to be sullen; to be offended; to be huffy; to be stuffy; to be stifling; to be muggy
brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows
to come near; to let someone approach; to bring near; to bring together; to deliver (opinion, news, etc.); to send (e.g. a letter); to let someone drop by
to pass judgment (judgement); to make a decision
why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!
feudal lord; (arch.) mansion; (arch.) palace
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
age relationship; luck attending age
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system)
eldest child; oldest child; first child; eldest son; oldest son
percussion; tapping; examining by percussion; sounding out (someone's intentions); making an approach (about)
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
that is to say; so that means
branch family; cadet family; leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name; (arch.) separate house
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
obstinate; stubborn; mulish; die-hard; bigoted
outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo; outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
postponement; deferment; adjournment
marriage proposal; marriage talks
to find resolution; to be settled; to be collected; to be assembled; to be well arranged; to be in order
to connect; to link together; to pull together; to close tightly; to purse (e.g. lips)