spare the rod and spoil the child; (lit.) if you love your children, send them out into the world
suggestion; hint; implication
Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)
smooth; flat; featureless; uneventful; noppera-bō; mythical being with flat featureless face
Enomoto Takeaki (1836.10.5-1908.10.27)
becoming a devout believer; (religious) conversion
(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy
to polish one's shoes; to clean your shoes
to take out a boat; to put out a boat
traditional winter hunters in Tōhoku; matagi
god; deity; divinity; spirit; kami
to be cured; to be healed; to cure; to heal; to rule
Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)
independence movement; mutually independent
Hijikata Toshizou (1835.5.31-1869.6.20)
self-contradiction; paradox; antinomy
Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)
division; section; demarcation; (traffic) lane; compartment; classification
review (of learned material); revision
brown bear (Ursus arctos)
appointment (to an office); investiture; commission
ginger (Zingiber officinale)
new government; new administration