grove of the village shrine
to become accustomed to calling (e.g. someone by a certain name)
tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person
family; relatives; dependents; household
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
to make it a principle to ...; to aim at doing
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
main force; chief object; mainline
military forces; hosts; troops
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
to distribute; to hand out
death from prostration; death from emaciation
to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out
to die; to draw one's last breath; to breathe one's last
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
to tower over the surroundings
sacred tree; support pillars of the traditional fire festival bonfires
offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering
dedication; offering; presentation; oblation
spirit of a deceased person; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit
to appease; to suppress; to calm
controlling; suppressing; quelling
villager; village folk; countryfolk
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
to teach thoroughly; to instill (into); to instil; to inculcate; to drum (into); to drill (into)
longing for others; wanting company
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
requital of a favour (favor); repayment (of an obligation, kindness, etc.)
disappearance; vanishing; loss; dying away; wearing off
invasion; raid; attack; visitation (of a calamity)
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)