programme; program; plans; arrangements
swift attack; quick attack; fast break; right away; without delay; immediately
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
Naoe Kanetsugu (1560-1619)
outline; summary; gist; basic points
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up
advice; counsel; remonstrance; recommendation
large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
stipulation; stating clearly; documenting in writing; stating explicitly
to change into; to convert to; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
heavenly god; heavenly gods; spirit of Sugawara no Michizane; Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit); pit of a dried plum; dried plum; tenjin hairstyle
to pitch camp; to set up camp
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days
council; conference; consultation
final scene; the end; finale
to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out
expenditure; disbursement; expenses
twenty-fifth day of the month; twenty-five days
Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
change; alteration; modification
anonymous report; (secret) information; tip-off; informing (against)
by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year
to be free; to be available
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
acquaintance; appreciative friend
to come to nothing; to go down the drain; to go up in smoke
Chūgoku Retaliation (military maneuver by Hideyoshi Hashiba in 1582)
to come to one's senses; to calm down
to solicit; to demand; to extort
make no progress; remain unsettled
genuineness or spuriousness; authenticity; the genuine and the spurious
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
to lie; to cheat; to pretend; to trick; to deceive
to be dead; to be lifeless
sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)
to plant; to transplant; to instil (idea, feeling, etc.)