to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
one party; one faction; one clique
Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
one's last moment; one's death; one's end
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky
all; the whole; on the whole; all in all; generally
pilgrimage; walking tour; travelling (on foot)
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
form; shape; figure; visage
hidden; concealed; unknown; passing away; dying; death
tranquil; calm; restful; peaceful; quiet
one season; one year (esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment)
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
to be impatient for; to wait (anxiously) for; to eagerly look forward to; to long for
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
temporary; provisional; interim; special; extraordinary; extra
family; members of a family
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
changing nests; changing one's place of merriment
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
Tsugaru (Western region of Aomori Prefecture)
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
southern part; the south (of a region)
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
to differ; to vary; to disagree