故郷七十年 – Vocabulary list

アイ

eye

5

太たい平へい洋よう岸がん

Pacific coast

2

海かい岸がん線せん

coastline; shoreline; coastal railway

1

巻まき

roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)

1

大おお伴とも家のやか持もち

Ootomo no Yakamochi (718?-785)

1

打うちつける

to nail (to something); to nail down; to bang (e.g. one's head); to knock; to throw (at a wall, on the floor, etc.); to fling (at)

1

アエル

Aer (Sendai)

2

饗きょう応おう

entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining

1

饗あるじ

entertaining someone as one's guest

3

打だ

hitting a ball (with a bat, golf club, etc.); batting; stroke

1

故ゆえに

therefore; consequently

3

ヤ行ぎょう

the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)

1

生なま

raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); raw; live (i.e. not recorded)

4

旅たび路じ

journey; route of a journey

1

とっかかり

beginning; clue; starting point

1

催さい馬ば楽ら

genre of Heian-period Japanese court music (primarily consisting of gagaku-styled folk melodies)

1

武たけ生お

Takeo

2

無む駄だ

futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness

1

至いたって

very much; exceedingly; extremely

2

分わかりやすい

easy-to-understand

2

あいの風かぜ

wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan

1

あっち

that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there

1

報しらせる

to notify; to advise; to inform

1

ハ行ぎょう

the "ha" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ha, hi, fu, he, ho)

1

たより

reliance; dependence

1

砂すな浜はま

sandy beach

1

吹ふき寄よせる

to drift; to blow together; to have the wind start to blow; to have the wind spring up

1

うるおす

to moisten; to wet; to profit; to enrich; to benefit

1

藻も

algae; waterweed; seaweed; duckweed

2

漂ひょう着ちゃく

drifting ashore

5

突つきあたり

end (of a street, hallway, etc.)

1

愛あい知ち郡ぐん

Aichigun

1

年あ魚ゆ

ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis); sweetfish

1

潟かた

lagoon; inlet; creek; tidal beach; tidal flat

1

妃ひ

princess; consort

1

徐じょ福ふく

Xu Fu (Qin dynasty court sorcerer sent by Qin Shi Huang to find the elixir of life)

2

流ながれつく

to drift (to); to be washed ashore

3

名なを残のこす

to be remembered; to go down in history

1

漂ひょう流りゅう物ぶつ

driftwood; flotsam

1

拾しゅう得とく

finding (lost property); picking up

1

鵜うのみにする

to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down

1

自し然ぜん史し

natural history

1

国こく土ど

country; territory; domain; realm

2

定てい期き

fixed period; fixed term; regular; periodic; fixed-term commuter pass; fixed-term deposit

1

潮ちょう流りゅう

tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend

8

鍛きたえる

to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline

1

してみれば

then; in that case; considering; if that is the case; if so

1

波なみ打うち際ぎわ

water's edge; beach; foreshore

1

草くさ木き

plants; vegetation

1

流ながれ出でる

to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out

1

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Vocabulary list: 故郷七十年