easy; simple; informal; offhand; cheap
to be solved; to be worked out; to come loose; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. of a ban)
marriage proposal; marriage talks
aim (of a gun, bow, etc.); aim; object; objective
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
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; vassal; follower
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)
fall of a castle; surrender of a castle; giving up (on something); giving in (to persuasion); yielding
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
Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)
Tōkaidō (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway); Tōkaidō (under the ritsuryō system; one of the seven districts of ancient Japan)
Hachiman (god of war); Hachiman shrine; (arch.) certainly
to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...
Tochigi (city, prefecture)
director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryō system)
basis; grounds; base (of operations); base (of a group of stones)