good; goodness; right; virtue
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
midway; halfway through; in the course of
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
ancestor who rejuvenated a dynasty or a family
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
riches; wealth; resources; lottery
development; exploitation
to plan; to attempt; to plot; to conspire; to aim for; to strive for
stability; steadiness; equilibrium
territory; fiefdom; feudal domain
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period)
container; receptacle; case; inserting; putting in
to beat (a drum); to pluck up courage
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
court noble; nobility; Imperial Court
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
disturbance; trouble; ups and downs
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
command; order; dictation; nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-)
benevolent rule; moratorium on debts
all present; all concerned; all of us
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
to see through; to see the true nature of something
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
to disrupt; to ruin; to hinder; to thwart
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
misfortune; adverse fortune; hapless fate; checkered (life, career, etc.); varied; eventful
rare; extraordinary; singular
in history; ever; historical
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.)
wanted; wished for; in need of; I want (you) to
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
foster mother; adoptive mother
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched