safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
solid; firm; stout; burly; strong; sturdy
healthy; robust; strong; solid; durable
stout-hearted; firm; courageous; brave; tough
good-looking man; fine figure of a man
hurrah!; long life; congratulations; full vent
stormy and full of drama; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes
plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (sometimes striped)
square jō (approx. 10 sq feet); abbot's chamber; chief priest; Mount Fangzhang (said to be inhabited by immortals); Mount Fanghu
3.03 meters (ten shaku); length; measure; Mr.; Mrs.
heroine; brave woman; spirited woman; woman of strong character; Amazon
hero; manly person; warrior
yellow silk cloth with a dark striped or checkered pattern (from Hachijo island)
one jō and six shaku (4.85m); statue of Buddha measuring one jō and six shaku; sitting cross-legged
reassuring; stout-hearted; firm; courageous
in high spirits; talking big
thick black silk from Hachijo Island
great man; fine figure of a man
elder; senior; wife's father; father-in-law
rising cloud of (yellowish) dust
many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); (lit.) three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
a small leak will sink a great ship
Hachijō dialects; Hachijō language
An Account of My Hut (1212 collection of essays in the Buddhist eremitic tradition, by Kamo no Chome); The Ten Foot Square Hut
wife's mother; mother-in-law
plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)
striped Hachijo silk cloth
Morus kagayamae (species of mulberry)
chocolate cowry (Mauritia mauritiana); humpback cowry