Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)
Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider); tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)
Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts)
Emperor Mommu; Mommu Tenno (683-707 CE, reigning: 697-707 CE)
group; (free) radical; counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)
preparation; provision; defenses; guard; military formation; troop arrangement
Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)
remainder; the rest; what is left
compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work
reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. of a new market); breaking new ground
management; administration; operation; running (a business); conducting
to walk; to move forward; to make progress
(arch.) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); foreigner; barbarian
to write (e.g. a letter); to draw up (a document); to take down (e.g. notes); to have (lunch, dinner, etc.); to eat
pressure; oppression; suppression
to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)
territories in the vicinity of Kyoto; territories in the vicinity of the imperial palace
residence; living (at, in); abode
extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
to regard (as); to consider (to be); to deem; to look upon (as); to think of (as)
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
to die out; to become extinct
to shoot (a gun, person, etc.); to fire
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
strange custom; quaint custom
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (someone's) side
dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
Wadō era (708.1.11-715.9.2)
making provision for the elderly; making provision for one's old age; spending one's old age in comfort; Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)
Shinsen Shouji Roku (Newly Compiled Record of Clan Names; 815 CE)
clans supposedly descended from the imperial family
both; many; various; together
another order; different order; special mission
Emperor Seimu; Seimu Tenno
at (a time or place); in; in (a situation, matter, etc.); on (a point); on the part of; under the authority of
greens; vegetables; rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed
to flow down; to run down
to own; to receive; to understand
people belonging to a hereditary occupation group (Yamato period)