five-part gravestone representing earth, water, fire, wind and heaven
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
excavation; exhumation; discovery (e.g. new talent)
pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love
to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)
to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to imagine; to guess; to infer
every year; yearly; annually
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
tea plantation; tea field
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
people; men and women; each person; everybody
to watch over; to watch attentively
Tenpō era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
ruins of a fire; fire-devastated area
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
morning sickness; hyperemesis gravidarum
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
to push; to press; to apply pressure from above; to press down; to stamp (i.e. a passport); to apply a seal; to affix (e.g. gold leaf)
conclusion; decision; judgement; affirmative