near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
Tōkaidō (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway); Tōkaidō (under the ritsuryō system; one of the seven districts of ancient Japan)
inner part; interior; living quarters (at the back of a house); inner room; recesses (of one's mind); bottom (of one's heart)
state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. of Canada); continent; province (of Japan); province (of ancient China); prefecture
hills and fields; hill and dale
pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course
to start a journey; to embark on a trip; to set forth; to hit the trail
Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
mainly; primarily; mostly; largely; chiefly
Sanuki (former province located in present-day Kagawa Prefecture)
Tsukushi (former province located in northern Kyūshū; later split into Chikuzen and Chikugo); Kyūshū
to have an audience (with)
Fujiwara No Hidehira (1033-1187)
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
Kawachi (former province located in the east of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
ghee (held to be the greatest of all flavours); (fig.) the ultimate truth of Buddhism; (fig.) nirvana
Kogi Shingon ("Old Shingon" school of Buddhism)
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
to steam (food, towel, etc.); to be hot and humid; to be sultry
full moon; moon on the 15th day of the month (by the lunar calendar); full moon of the eighth lunar month
one or two; a couple; a few; first and second (place); the top two
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
to end; to come to an end; to finish; to complete; to finish doing; to be past its (one's) prime
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
roaming; drifting about; wandering; drifting (with the current, on the tide, etc.)
gauge; standard; length; size; (measuring) rule; scale
Heike family; Taira family
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
counter for birds or rabbits
dozens; scores of; decades
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
imperial visit; imperial outing
hurried construction; hurried production; hasty manufacture; hasty formation