moat; fosse; canal; ditch
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance
government office; public office
pretending not to know; feigning ignorance
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
movements; sitting and standing
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
workman; enterpriser; schemer
hewn stone; quarried stone; ashlar; flagstone
to hit (a person); to strike; to beat; to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)
to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin
(somebody's) child; person with parents; other people's children; the Son of Man; Christ
to leave as is; to ignore
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
(in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song
children's hairstyle of short untied hair; child with short untied hair; young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period); (arch.) baldness; (arch.) bald head
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
(doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
fifth month of the lunar calendar; satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum)
iris (flower); Siberian iris (Iris sanguinea); (arch.) sweet flag (Acorus calamus); (arch.) calamus
roofing; roofed with; thatching; thatched with; shingling; shingled with
samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight
sweet flag (Acorus calamus); calamus; Japanese iris (Iris ensata var. ensata)
to tell (to do); to order; to tell on (someone); to tattle; to often say
to roof (a house with some material); to thatch; to shingle; to tile
older brother; elder brother
Shinano (former province located in present-day Nagano Prefecture and parts of Gifu Prefecture)
middle; midway; middle position; moderate position; interim; intermediary
15th day of the 7th lunar month; (last day of) Bon lantern festival; mid-year gift; summer gift; Bon Festival gifts
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
Shinshū (alt. name of former Shinano province)
lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods
comrade; friend; associate; colleague; fellow student; fellow apprentice