another village; other villages
great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
five-family unit; five-man group; quintet
neighboring village; neighbouring village
to exchange; to swap; to barter; to replace; to substitute
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
endorsement; proof; note on back of the scroll
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
to work as; to pursue as a vocation
hillside farm; fallow ground
land made arable by the slash-and-burn method; swidden; slash-and-burn farming
barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta); Japanese millet; sanwa millet
buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
assorted grains; cereals; millet
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
(arch.) lowly person; (arch.) lowliness; I
valley; ravine; cleavage (breasts); slum
the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
breeding; multiplication; increase; propagation; reproduction
used; second-hand; old; Middle Ages (in Japan esp. Heian period)
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
god; deity; incredible; fantastic; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; fickleness; capriciousness
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
building lot; residential land
from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; first volume (e.g. book); superior quality; best