to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
ruler; monarch; sovereign
favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
to chant; to sing; to recite; to write (a poem); to compose
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier); guandao; Chinese glaive
admiration; being impressed (by)
to convey (a message, e.g. to one's superior); to communicate; to pass on; to pass along
to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over
aid; help; assistance; assistant; counselor; counsellor
to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)
affliction; hardship; difficulty; suffering; trouble
to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.); (arch.) to abide by; (arch.) to agree to
practitioner of Buddhism; practitioner of austerities; disciplinant; practitioner of martial arts
(humble) man; coarse man; rustic
deed; act; work; performance
important; significant; precious; valuable; careful
nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son
to waste; to treat shabbily; to treat frivolously; to handle roughly; to treat without respect
to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes
disturbance; agitation; commotion; upheaval; riot
boo! (sound used to scare someone); ugh (dissatisfaction, aggravation); ulp (consternation)
all present; all concerned; all of us
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
great numbers; numerical superiority
stable boy; stable hand; groom
countryside; country; 50-home township (comprised of 2-3 neighbourhoods)
to lean on; to recline on; to rely on; to depend on
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
streetwalker; nightwalker; prostitute
(Edo period) streetwalker
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
spirit; heart; disposition