light used as a religious offering; paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)
Kawaji Toshiyoshi (1834-1879.10.13)
unlucky for all activities, with only the period around noon being auspicious
relaxing; remitting; slackening
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
sword hunt; sword confiscation
to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)
life-taking sword; sword used to kill
Earth Dragon (5th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1928, 1988, 2048)
head; brains; intelligence
spy working for the Edo shogunate; oniwaban
vagrancy; wandering; nomadism
martial arts school situated in a town
heavenly beings shown flying around the main image in a temple; Feitian (2008 Chinese space suit)
open one's eyes wide; with eyes open like saucers
slack; slovenly; lackadaisical; moonstruck; love-struck; spoony
imitative sound (in film, theatre, etc.); sound effect
washing; sashimi chilled in iced water
constable; method of catching criminals
severely beaten up; thoroughly defeated; completely destroyed; severely damaged; battered; beat-up
Saigou Takamori (1828.1.23-1877.9.24)
selection; classification; sorting; screening; triage
fateful; decisive (e.g. war)
failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later
revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan)
Imperial standard; (fig.) worthy cause
excess; surplus; superabundance