length; measure; short length
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
the front (of a battlefield); forefront
spare time; free time; leisure
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity; neighborhood; neighbourhood
follower; attendant; valet; servant
to loiter around; to wander about
short and stout; small but wide around
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
planting; planting out; transplanting
Edo period inspection of rice plants
Sunpu (old name for Shizuoka City)
time; hour; season; time of the year
strong nation; powerful country
to get between; to be caught in
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
young lord; successor of one's current lord
prime of one's life; stage of maturity
negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated
latter half of one's life
endurance; perseverance; patience
to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)
this spring; spring this year
pent-up (energy, enthusiasm, etc.); burning (e.g. ambition); irrepressible (e.g. desire)
quiver (of arrows; cylindrical)
popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness
appearing as if something doesn't exist; casual; offhand
now (while the time is ripe); while one still can
war advocacy; jingoism; bellicose argument