house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
large quantity; large amount
faithful; devoted; loyal; honest; true
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
reflection; consideration
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray
Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals)
drafting; requisition; impressment; commandeering; expropriation
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
kind (of goods); brand; (taxonomical) form; breed; cultivar
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
nineteenth day of the month; nineteen days; (arch.) fool; (arch.) simpleton
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
open air; outdoors; outside
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
hawks; hardline faction; hardliner
thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)
han; fan; unit that doubles the score of a hand
drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol); drink; drinking party
riding ground; racecourse; racetrack
to ripen; to mature; to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act); to be in common use; to come to sound natural
second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); stylish; chic; strange; quaint
third rank; third class; third person (in a contract, etc.); third sign of the Chinese calendar
peers; friends; fellow workers; comrades
to give a dinner party; to hold a banquet
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
government service; the bureaucracy
achievement; feat; meritorious deed; distinguished service
if you ask me ...; as for ...