poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
originally; by nature; from the start
daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
dweller; inhabitant; resident; user (of a website)
rather; better; instead; if anything
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
prosperity; flourishing; thriving
prosperity; flourishing; thriving
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
to think (about, of); to think over; to consider; to bear in mind; to think (that); to believe; to intend (to do)
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ballad; folk song; popular song
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
four; four years of age; ten o'clock (old time system); Burakumin; cross grips
joke; witticism; pleasantry; attempt at humour; attempt at humor
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
three (long cylindrical things); three-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
silk damask; satin damask
Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)
supremacy (over a nation); hegemony; domination; championship; victory
(metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto); the centre or seat (of) (center); (government) office; fu; historical administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam
deep; profound; dense; thick; close (relationship); intense; strong
relation; relationship; participation; involvement; influence; effect
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
dozens; scores of; decades
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)