from time immemorial; ancient; time-honoured; time-honored
to dwell; to live; to stay at; to take shelter at; to be pregnant; to be part of a constellation
itinerant Buddhist monk; practitioner of Shugendō
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543.1.31-1616.6.1), Shougun 1603-1605
hunting ground; hunting contest
hills and fields; countryside
law; regulation; rule; code; agreement; arrangement
to run counter to; to go against; to disobey; to infringe
(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
former years; formerly; a few years ago
Japanese Rhine (gorge section of the Kiso River between Minokamo, Gifu and Inuyama, Aichi); Japan Rhine
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)
wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
student (esp. a university student)
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
nice-looking; seemingly fine; nice-sounding; polite-sounding; plausible (e.g. excuse); glib
bet; wager; stake; gamble
hot spring; onsen; hot spring resort; hot spring spa
stormy weather (at sea); poor catch of fish (due to stormy seas); poor turn-out; recession
pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine
pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine
dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)
dining table; a dish (type of food)
to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head; to lose one's cool; to be obsessed; to be infatuated; to become conceited
asking; enquiring; searching; looking for
to be overcome with emotion
degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.); counter for occurrences; strength (of glasses); glasses prescription; alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume; extent
to hang (something) on the wall
chopping board; cutting board