ama; female diver who collects shells, seaweed, etc.
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
(someone's) child; person with parents; other people's children; the Son of Man; Christ
drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice
war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; virtue; benefit
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
reference; example; inquiry (about a product, business deal, etc.); enquiry; being summoned to appear to court; witness
future years; in (one's) later years
Tōkai region (of Honshu; incl. Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and southern Gifu prefectures); eastern sea; Tōkaidō (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway); (arch.) Japan
poverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
(way of) life; lifestyle; living; life circumstances; livelihood; day-to-day life
to lower one's fishing line (into water)
counter for laps or circuits; perimeter; Zhou dynasty (of China; approx. 1046-256 BCE); Chou dynasty
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
father; father (e.g. of a discipline); pioneer (e.g. of field of research); God; Father
existence; being; life; survival
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
to desire; to want; to expect (of someone); to hope for; to see; to command (a view of)
(doing) together; one lump; one mixture; the same; identical; (at) the same time
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
(compulsory) retirement age; age limit; (compulsory) retirement (on reaching retirement age); mandatory retirement; minimum years of service at a particular rank before eligibility for promotion (in the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy)
willingly; voluntarily; of one's own accord
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
wise ruler; enlightened monarch; benevolent lord
-less; lacking; non-existing
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes; to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
carrying out one's duties; ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege; territory given by one's liege; fief
to obey; to submit to; to serve (in the army, a prison sentence, etc.); to go into (mourning); to observe; to take (medicine, poison, etc.)
good-value; economical; advantageous (price, deal, etc.); useful; helpful
to pose a riddle; to hint (at); to drop a hint
to employ (as a retainer); to enlist; to engage