spot; point; place; position
consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion
broad street; main street; avenue; boulevard
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
to perform some process; to apply some treatment; to revise; to correct
structural alteration (of a building); reconstruction; rebuilding; remodelling; remodeling
classification by colour; sorting by color; color-coding; classification; sorting; grouping
that is (to say); namely; precisely; exactly; if one does ..., then; in that case
to narrow in (on); to home in; to focus; to target
at this point; at this last moment; this late in the game
entreaty; appeal; petition
8th day of the month; eight days
low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)
pipe; tube; counter for injection ampoules
district acting shugo (in the Muromachi period); deputy military governor (of a district); district magistrate (in the Edo period)
dropout; quitter; deserter
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
document; letter; writing; contents (e.g. of a letter)
oral; verbal; spoken; parol
verbal note (notes verbale); written statement
(not) in the least; (not) at all; (not) a bit
god; deity; god-tier; incredible; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder
telling others; divulging (a secret); revealing; disclosing; letting out
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
debt; loan; liabilities; number of games under the .500 mark
subsidy; grant; subvention
Kantō (region comprising Tokyo and surrounding prefectures); Kantō (eastern half of Japan; during the feudal era)
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
minerals and rocks; metal and stone utensils; epigraph
remaining an idle spectator; looking on unconcernedly (doing nothing)