confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
to tell (somebody) to (do something)
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
emperor (of Japan); mikado; (the gates of an) imperial residence
to hear; to be told; to know; to receive (order); to undertake; to comply
even; for starters; so; therefore; judging from; based on
modern style; contemporary style; current fashion; verse form from the Heian and Kamakura periods consisting of 4 lines each divided into two parts of 7 and 5 syllables
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
racketeer; thug; rogue; bully; fixer
distant future; descendants; lower classes; common people
spell; curse; dharani; mantra
dull; slow; stupid; dull-brained
to say; to tell; to state; to do
(a) slight; disrespect; making light (of); neglect
to get someone to say; to make someone say; to let someone say; to let someone speak out; to make a sound
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
seam; seal (e.g. envelope); writing on the seal of an envelope
to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
to take seriously; to take someone at their word; to believe (to be true)
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
to do something in public; to open
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
to start something; to have started something, but not yet finished it
danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of
buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end
oh!; dear me; my goodness; well well; I say
discovery; detection; finding
han; fan; unit that doubles the score of a hand
reins; bridle; control; the reins (on)
to be temperate in; to refrain; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
something used to cover the eyes; blindfold; blinder; concealing one's home such that the interior cannot be seen from outside