highest-ranking blind court official; temple administrator; shrine administrator; administrator of a manor; (arch.) inspection; (arch.) inspector
perusing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously; side business; job on the side
cheap; inexpensive; pure; honest; upright
fidelity; honour; honor; chastity (of a woman); faithfulness (e.g. to one's husband)
even though; despite; when
boy; son; baby boy; young man
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
wonderful; splendid; magnificent
slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)
family or person with samurai ancestors
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance
preface; foreword; introduction
warbler being in a valley; valley in which warblers live; remaining obscure and unsuccessful
some book; book about that subject; books
this family; we; this house
daring; brave; bold; valiant; intrepid; dauntless
many samurai; many gentlefolk
natural laws; rule of heaven
to govern; to manage; to subdue
some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...; or; either ... or
woman's beauty or charms; love affair with a woman; lust for women
the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
important law; fundamental law
to run counter to; to go against; to disobey; to infringe
continuously; from beginning to end; from first to last
tedious; boring; being fed up with
breaks and pauses (in a sentence); punctuation; way of reading (esp. kanbun)
paragraph; end; stopping place; conclusion
host and guest; principal and auxiliary; subject and object (philosophical); subject and object
largehearted; frank; unaffected
literary and military arts; the pen and the sword
field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth
notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration); being well versed (in); being proficient (in)
at first; in the beginning; originally