echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
one shot; one charge; one blow; one punch; home run; one try; one attempt
open veranda; open verandah
dyeing black; dyed black; priest robes; priesthood; mourning dress
remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)
to sense; to infer; to gather; to pick up on; to get wind of; to perceive
spying out; discovering (by covert investigation)
to fire (a gun); to shoot; to let off; to loose off; to blow (someone) away
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
barely; just; narrowly; with difficulty
trigger (of a gun, etc.); trigger (for something); immediate cause
monme (unit of weight, 3.75 g); monme; Edo-period silver coin worth between 1/50th and 1/80th of a ryō
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)
go on!; right!; here goes!
to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
Battle of Toba-Fushimi (January 27-31, 1868)
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
area; region; district; locality
multi-unit apartments; apartment complex
yōkan; jellied dessert made from red bean paste, agar, and sugar
person killed in action; the war dead
descendant; progeny; offspring
ritual; religious service; festival
to remove; to take away; to clear away; to tear down; to pull down; to demolish
fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit
as far as the eye can see
things dried in the sun (esp. clothes, dyed cloth, etc.)
river fish; freshwater fish
midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year
great-grandmother; great-grandma