daimyo's main Tokyo mansion
silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color
stand; rack; support; holder; counter for machines, incl. vehicles; setting (e.g. in jewellery); level (e.g. price level)
substitute land; substitute lot; land substitution; land exchange
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
daimyo's spare residence or emergency refuge; residence of a daimyo's successor
March; third month of the lunar calendar
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
family positioned to accede to the shogunate
rope; cord; line; grand champion's braided belt
moat; fosse; canal; ditch
second day of the month; two days
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
head; chief; top student; head of the class; top seat; first desk (in orchestra)
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
origin; source; virtuous ancestor
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; (arch.) that's right
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
Boy's Day celebration (May 5)
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
will; resolution; kindness; goodwill; gift (as a token of gratitude)
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
frequently; repeatedly; eagerly; keenly; hard; terribly
letter; missive; note; mail
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
to call for somebody; to come for someone; to pick someone up
to badger; to pester; to beg
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding