to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
to hold in one's mouth; to bring with; to take along
heart; guts; nerve; heart (of something); central part
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
concussion (of the brain)
assertion; declaration; affirmation
to hand down (a story, legend, etc.); to pass on (to the next generation); to spread (a rumor, news, etc.); to circulate; to send word; to pass on (a message)
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously
black; black stone; guilt; guilty person
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
educational policies or administration; Bunsei era (1818.4.22-1830.12.10)
wholesale store; wholesale dealer; wholesaler
Izumi (former province located in the southwest of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
difficult delivery; difficult childbirth; dystocia
to go into labor; to go into labour
to escape death; to be saved from death
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address; overwriting (data, file, etc.)
to learn something through hearing
kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like
ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer
resultant force; assistance; help; donation; alms
woman in childbirth; woman who is just about to give birth; woman who has just given birth
contents of a document (esp. of a letter)
outline; summary; roughly; generally; great ingenuity; excellent resourcefulness
(arch.) poor; (arch.) unskillful; (arch.) clumsy; I; me
neighboring town; neighbouring town; adjacent town
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
contrary to one's wishes; gone awry; gone amiss; short of money; in financial difficulty
inevitable; unavoidable; certain; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
quickly; calmly; intently
whereabouts; country; one's home village; one's residence
table; chart; list; memorial to an emperor
appropriate to one's lot in life; within one's means; fitting to one's position; suitable to one's social status
one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace
to go to; to visit; to call on