Chuushingura - Volume 4 – Vocabulary list

酒さか樽だる

sake barrel; sake cask

2

必かならずや

certainly; surely; definitely

1

とうご

inverted word; verlan

1

尽じん力りょく

efforts; exertion; endeavour; assistance; services

1

有あり難がたい

grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude

1

口くちに入はいる

to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

1

差さし入いれ

insertion; letter drop; sending to a prisoner; thing sent to a prisoner; supply of provisions, refreshments, etc. to someone carrying out a task

1

石いし突づき

ferrule (of a cane, umbrella, etc.); butt end (of a lance, pike, etc.); hard tip (of a mushroom stem)

1

鏡かがみ板いた

panel; scene-panel; painted backdrop (panel at the back of a noh stage), on which a pine tree is painted

1

待まちかねる

to wait impatiently for

1

代かわる

to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

1

わる

to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below

1

柄ひ杓しゃく

ladle; dipper; scoop

1

酌くむ

to pour (sake); to serve; to drink (together); to consider (feelings, the situation, etc.); to sympathize with; to intuit

1

舌した

tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)

1

劈つんざく

to break; to tear; to pierce; to split; to burst

1

松まつの雪ゆき

snow on pine branches

1

詠よむ

to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

1

ひとまず

for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion

1

僧そう

monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)

1

異い装そう

unusual clothing; strange way of dressing up; prohibited form of dress

1

怖お気ぞけをふるう

to be horrified; to be filled with trepidation

1

薄うす明あかるい

faintly light; dim

1

疲ひ労ろう困こん憊ぱい

total exhaustion

1

高こう齢れい者しゃ

old person; elderly person; senior citizen

1

突つき刺さす

to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust

1

意い味みがない

useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point

1

遭そう遇ぐう

encounter; running into; meeting with (e.g. an accident); being confronted with (e.g. a difficulty)

1

郭くるわ

district; quarter; enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; red-light district

2

会かい戦せん

engagement; battle

1

引ひきずり込こむ

to drag in; to pull in

1

見み破やぶる

to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out

1

小しょう名みょう

minor feudal lord

1

月つき並なみ

every month; trite; commonplace; conventional

1

登と城じょう

attendance at a castle

3

路じ

route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)

1

本ほん通どおり

main street; boulevard

1

東とう岸がん

eastern coast; east bank

1

永えい代たい

permanence; eternity

4

霊れい

soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost

1

岸きし

bank; coast; shore

1

島とう

Island; insula; island; islet

1

鉄てっ砲ぽう

gun; firearm; wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice; puffer fish

1

洲す

sandbank; sandbar

1

汐しお

tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance

1

杉すぎ

Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)

1

泉いずみ

spring; fountain

1

岳たけ

(high) mountain; Mount; Mt.; mountain peak

1

行こう進しん

march; parade

1

一ひと目め見みる

to give a glance (at); to take one look at

1

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Vocabulary list: Chuushingura - Volume 4