rough; wild; rude; harsh; gruff; violent
hack; inferior horse; inferior person; incapable person
long, thin, roofless small boat (used as a river taxi during the Edo period)
empty; meaningless; worthless
beach; seashore; seaside; coast
lonely; desolate; forlornness; desolation
Nichiren; Nichiren (Buddhist priest, 1222-82, founder of the Nichiren sect)
recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
Sado Island (Niigata); Sadogashima
gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive
time of death; one's final hour; one's end
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...
(relative) merits; superiority or inferiority; quality
to speak; to talk; to argue; to manage; to dispose of; to carry through
stance with legs in an L-shape, with one leg bent in front and other extended behind (martial arts, traditional theater)
narrow insight; narrow view; my humble opinion
extending (e.g. a book); augmenting; enlarging; supplementing
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
to be intimate with; to befriend
to establish a school of; to make a home of one's own
mistaken account; miscommunication
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
some; (a) little; somewhat; to some extent; in part
remembering; recollection; recall; to remember; to recall; to recollect
alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)
alley; alleyway; bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)
Tamenaga Shunsui (1790-1843)
plum blossoms (as a harbinger of spring)