terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
without authority; without reason; unnecessarily; recklessly; indiscriminately
disaster; calamity; misfortune
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
to cheat someone out of; to wangle; to get; to obtain
various families; various schools of thought
round of calls; tour of visitation
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
to beg; to ask; to request; to invite
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
misrepresentation; false statement
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
top or preceding horizontal column
the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants); the masses
karma; result of one's karma; fate; uncontrollable temper
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
making provision for the elderly; making provision for one's old age; spending one's old age in comfort; Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)
first year (of an imperial era); year something (important) first happened or began
ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition
lately; recently; nowadays
cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky
wife and children; (arch.) wife
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
sutra; Buddhist scriptures
bowl; pot; flowerpot; crown; brainpan
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
group (of people); crowd; horde; throng; mob; multitude
learning; studying the fine arts
cunning and wickedness; cunning and wicked person