Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)
unpreparedness; falsehood; Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
way; manner; school (e.g. of flower arrangement); class; rate; flow
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
is that so?; I see; right; oh
I; me; you; (arch.) manservant
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
such; this sort of; like this
manner; way; appearance; air; custom; convention; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
failure; mistake; blunder
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now
-less; lacking; non-existing
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
to be seen; to be visible; to look; to seem; to come
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
uninhabited island; desert island
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
rebellion; great uprising
hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)
exile; banishment; deportation
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
after ages; posterity; future life; the next world
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to rule; to govern; to reign over; to subdue; to suppress; to quell
rattling and trembling of a house (traditionally believed to be caused by oni or the deceased); creaking of a building (and its furniture)
(art of) fencing; swordsmanship
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")