protection; defense; providence; amulet; charm
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
means; way; method; measure
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
seating order; precedence; ranking; rank; position
several hundred; hundreds (of)
nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish
gods and men; godlike person; person as powerful as a god; (arch.) low-ranking Shinto priest
to be descended from; to inherit (a disposition, etc.) from one's ancestors
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
old age; age; old people; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) my humble self
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
to cause casualties; to result in deaths
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent; epiphany; arrival (of an important person); appearance
finally; in the end; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
way; manner; (for) the first time in (e.g. ten years); after ...; ...-sized; amount (equivalent to ...)
oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition
elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress
fertile; rich; productive
earth; ground; the solid earth; the (vast) land
difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different
to make war (on); to wage war (against); to compete (against); to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight
hero; the brave; man of valour (valor)