Mount Penglai; Penglai Island; sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.); Kansai New Year decoration (made from food); Formosa; Taiwan
in regard to; concerning (usu. of disputes)
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
tortoise; turtle; heavy drinker; turtle crest; turtle mon
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
simple; plain; modest; frugal; reserved
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
mounting (of a picture); binding (of a book)
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
mourning; (arch.) calamity; (arch.) misfortune
tea-ceremony arbor; tea-ceremony arbour
Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
footpath; walkway; sidewalk
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to approach; to draw near
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
to get (someone) drunk; to inebriate; to intoxicate; to charm; to enchant
Kitamura Toukoku (1868-1894)
new book; new publication
sen (hundredth of a yen); coin made of non-precious materials; one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency); (arch.) one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)
trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing
large amount of money; great cost
pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance
thirst for knowledge; intellectual thirst
narrow-minded; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; unreasonable; warped
comfortably; peacefully; with one's mind at ease; (growing) quickly
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
the same grade; same class
relationship; relation; terms (good, friendly, etc.)
returning from school; going home from school
bold; audacious; impudent; unashamed; unabashed
surname; family name; hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
proximity; nearness; soon; nearby
dice; die; baton (of command)
ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops; rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)
to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)
prosperity; flourishing; thriving