glabrous sarcandra herb (Sarcandra glabra); very large sum (of money); very high value; 1000 ryō
barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
wise ruler; sage king; intelligent and virtuous monarch
matter (to attend to); business; affair; use; need
your coming; coming with happy news; your presence
polite; courteous; hospitable; careful; handled with great care; treated with attention
inscription; epitaph; epigraph
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou dynasty Chinese army)
medium; diviner; shaman; oracle
kagura; traditional Shinto music and dancing
skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
5th day of the month; five days
tough; stubborn; determined; severely; heavily; hard
accidentally; in error; by mistake; by accident
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
celebration of a child's seventh day
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
to be deeply impressed (by); to be moved (by); to admire greatly
to wink; to blink; to twinkle; to flicker
to surface; to rise to the surface
determined purpose; an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought); a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu)
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
tree cricket (Oecanthus longicauda)
writing; composition; essay; sentence
to drive a quill (pen); to wield the writing brush
correction; revision; amendment
stroke in a Chinese character
villager; village folk; countryfolk
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
grandchild from a daughter married into another family
to read (a text) from start to finish; to transliterate classical Chinese into Japanese
still; even now; to this day
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to look around; to survey
to hang one's head; to droop one's head
plan; device; idea; design; contrivance; conception