ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat
dry riverbed; river beach
Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)
between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis
overwhelming; conquering; dominating; sweeping (the world); swaying
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
energy; military strength
Bhaisajyaguru; Pindola; The Healing Buddha
narrowness; being cramped; being almost full
three sides; three faces; page three (of a newspaper)
to appear ...; to look like ...; to seem ...; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
cutting to pieces; tearing to pieces
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
flute player; flutist; flautist; piper
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
three countries; Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE); (arch.) Japan, China and India; (arch.) Japan, Korea and China
strategist; tactician; schemer
insufficient; inadequate; imperfect
sailing; marching; going out; dispatch
complete ruin; collapse; losing (something) completely (e.g. face)
from afar; over a great distance; all the way
torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
winds and clouds; nature; the elements; situation; state of affairs
many; numerous; various; large number of
to say; to tell; to state; to do
mountain recess; deep in the mountains
carving; engraving; chiselled features
valley; ravine; cleavage (breasts); slum
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
defeating barbarians (esp. the Emishi); conquering barbarians
company; group; class; troop; rank; file
responsibility; duty; obligation