dispatching to the United States (e.g. an envoy); sending to the United States
to blow a conch; to blow a trumpet shell; to blow the war horn
monument (stele, gravestone, etc.) engraved with a waka
to relate; to narrate; to describe; to confer (a rank)
day-by-day renewal; rapid progress
perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot
conch (esp. Charonia tritonis); trumpet shell
dignity; majesty; solemnity; gravity
to divide (by); to remove; to exclude
rainy; showery; inclement
rebels; bandit; robber; traitors
Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family
ruler and ruled; master and servant
fifth degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale)
attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of
Ōu (the two former provinces of Mutsu and Dewa); Tōhoku
extremely rude (impertinent, impolite)
most difficult; next to impossible
residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo