highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
to cover a surface; to spread all over; to blanket; to lay
shoe; shoes; boots; footwear; footgear
to go out; to go around; to walk about; to roam
gas (state of matter, e.g. poison gas, natural gas); gasoline; gas; dense fog; thick fog; gas stove
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
envious; jealous; enviable (position, etc.)
gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance
to draw (water); to ladle; to pour (into a cup); to drink (together); to consider (feelings, the situation, etc.); to sympathize with
plating (chrome, gold, silver, etc.); coating; gilding; pretense; pretence; simulation
factory; plant; mill; workshop
factory; manufactory; works; mill
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much
Washington, DC (United States); Washington (US state)
descendant; posterity; offspring
single edge (e.g. sword blade)
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
first generation; founder
very big; very large; taking up a lot of space
central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); chief; boss; master carpenter; beams and ridge supports of a roof
Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333)
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543.1.31-1616.6.1), Shougun 1603-1605
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
the House of Tokugawa; the Tokugawas
profit; advantage; benefit; rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
Japan; name for Japan used in ancient China
Nakahama Manjirou (1827-1898)
to discuss; to talk together
dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation