to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to return; to come home; to leave; 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)
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
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
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
roaming; drifting about; wandering
gauge; standard; length; size; (measuring) rule; scale
Heike family; Taira family
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
counter for birds, rabbits, etc.
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
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
halo; aureole; aureola; halo (optical phenomenon); glory
hurried construction; hurried production; hasty manufacture; hasty formation
overnight stay when traveling (travelling); sleeping on grass in an open field
nevertheless; at any rate; even so; all things considered; be that as it may
traffic; transportation; communication; exchange (of ideas, etc.); intercourse
crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)
indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very
to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
decorative curtain hung from the ceiling; tent; pavilion; marquee
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)
people; citizens; subjects; folk
puppeteer; puppet player; wirepuller; string-puller; man behind the scenes
puppet; marionette; puppeteer; (arch.) prostitute
nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyō; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world
luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant
eternal; unlimited; endless
to flush out (game, etc.); to drive (animals); to beat; to urge; to spur on; to push on