holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors
meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast
to feel uncomfortable; to be offended; to have a bad time
surrender (fall) of a castle
rope; cord; policeman's rope
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
to take someone's life; to kill someone
to declare; to assert; to say bluntly; to say straight out
party-internal; within the party
arm; skill; efforts; ability
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
the person concerned; the person in question; the said person
honor; honour; credit; prestige
to give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
entering the priesthood; priest; monk; bonze
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
peace and tranquillity; halcyon times of peace; peaceful world
generation; the world; the age
to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture
one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)
forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate
1,000,000; one million; million; many
agreement; stipulation; contract
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
Chikugo (former province located in the south of present-day Fukuoka Prefecture)
Hitachi (former province located in the major part of present-day Ibaraki Prefecture)
row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
rebellion; great uprising
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses
history of Japan; Japanese history
Tokugawa Tadanaga (1606-1633.1.5)
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
action of making something; -ification
to shut out; to bar; to lock out; to exclude