flight; running away; absconding; elopement
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
repair; mending; fixing; servicing
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
decision; judgment; resolution
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
older sister; elder sister
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse
from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; first volume (e.g. book); superior quality; best
some; several; many; how many; how much; very
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
to hate the very sight of; to hold a grudge against; to treat like an enemy; to bear constant enmity; to be gunning for; to have it in for
though; notwithstanding; although
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
splendid; fine; handsome; elegant; imposing; prominent
greeting; a fine thing to say
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death
ill-natured; mean; mischievous; nasty; unkind; teasing
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
like this; this sort; this way
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
long time; long interval; for quite some time