Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
dark (skin, complexion, etc.); swarthy; tanned
significant; full of meaning; pregnant (with meaning); suggestive
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence
heredity; (genetic) inheritance
to be in complete attendance
dry riverbed; river beach
after all; in the end; in short
boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier
maiko; apprentice geisha; dancing girl
to insert; to put in; to plant (a cutting); to strike; to arrange (flowers); to wear (a sword) in one's belt
fluttering (esp. of thick or heavy material); piece of dangling cloth, paper, metal, etc.
oil sands; tar sands; bituminous sands
making sport of; making a plaything of; toying with; trifling with; ridicule; mockery
historical view; view of history (from a given point of view)
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
unless one ...; if one does not ...
logic; reasoning; argument; line of argument
to fight with each other; to fight amongst yourselves
interval; break; pause; gap (e.g. in the clouds); rift; cleft
to cling to; to stick to; to be wedded to
the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly
human intellect; knowledge
chaos; turmoil; pandemonium; havoc
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
to count on one's fingers
shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
thousand years; very long period; forever
odd; strange; queer; weird; bizarre