something to rely on; aid; someone to rely on; relative; reminder; memento
inside and outside; interior and exterior; inside and outside the country; home and abroad; around; about
lineage; line; unification; all (of you)
verbal message; word (from someone)
to draft; to write a rough copy
retainer; retinue; servant
employer's house; master's house
ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy
to till; to plow; to plough; to cultivate
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
Tochigi prefecture (Kanto area)
to be adjacent (with each other); to come into contact (with each other); to touch (each other); to neighbor (neighbour); to border
indigenousness; being native (to a region); settling (of people); native; indigenous; aboriginal
Gunsho Ruiju (collection of Japanese classics sorted by type; orig. ed. 1819; comp. ed. 1911)
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
appendix; supplement; annex; extra (of a newspaper or magazine)
surrender (fall) of a castle
to do together; to share; to participate in
to decapitate; to take (someone's) head off; to depose; to topple
to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded
to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)
to leave the government service
Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
Hachiman (God of War); Hachiman shrine; (arch.) certainly
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
Tochigi (city, prefecture)
director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system)
basis; foundation; grounds; authority
subjugation (using military force); suppression; subduing
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
taikō (esp. Toyotomi Hideyoshi); title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son
confiscation of property (Edo period)
to make good one's escape; to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape
forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain (Edo period); change of constituency (politician); change of district
very big; very large; taking up a lot of space