magistrate; shogunate administrator
Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)
essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings
one passage; one paragraph; one stanza; one verse; one section (of a piece of music); one syllable
Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)
Ministry of War (Tang dynasty China)
assistant vice-minister (ritsuryō system, early Meiji period)
chief retainer; daimyo's minister
certain amount; some; certain person; Mr So-and-so; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
to tell; to announce; to declare; to pass (a sentence); to order
examination of a body to determine if a crime has been committed; investigation (e.g. of a crime scene)
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
feeling guilty; having a guilty conscience; having qualms about
one's long-cherished desire
to know; to be aware (of); to be acquainted (with); to think; to consider; to believe
staying in the same inn or hotel; rooming together
long sword (as opposed to the shorter katana); tachi; sabre-like sword worn on the hip with the blade facing down
to select (the best); to choose; to pick out
sword inscribed with the name of the swordsmith
wanting (to have); desiring; wishing for; I want (you, them, etc.) to (do)
price; cost; value; worth; value
entreaty; solicitation; earnest request
to go together; to go in company (with); to go along (with)
to come near (to); to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to reach (a stage, period, etc.); to overhang; to hang over
to kill with a sword (knife, dagger, etc.); to slay; to put to the sword
this sort of; of this kind; of the sort; such
common; ordinary; fair (e.g. fight); gracious; frank; open
complex; complicated; intricate; mixed (feelings)
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
tsuzumi; hourglass-shaped Japanese hand drum; drum (general term for struck leather percussion instruments)
shaft of an arrow (usu. made of thin bamboo); cornetfish
death from disease; death from illness
male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)
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 keep in mind; to bear in mind; to try; to aim to do; to endeavor; to endeavour
national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)