to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
Tōtōmi (former province located in the west of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
prayer (for something); supplication
dedication; offering; presentation; oblation
sword; dagger; knife; bayonet
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
(religious) faith; belief; creed
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
god; deity; incredible; fantastic; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder
to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important
sorrow; grief; anguish; trouble; affliction; anxiety
reckless deforestation; overcutting of forests
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
construction; architecture (of buildings)
fort; fortress; stronghold; fortification
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
to tower over the surroundings
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
road approaching a shrine
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial
leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle