anode; plus terminal; positive pole
audience seating (noh theater); audience (esp. in noh)
to relate; to narrate; to describe; to confer (a rank)
my party; our party; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you
day-by-day renewal; rapid progress
perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot
Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919)
handbook; manual; compendium
ionization; ionisation; electrolytic dissociation
being in the service of; serving at; holding office
to divide (by); to remove; to exclude
Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
to become famous; to make a name for oneself
long; drawn-out; very long
to accompany; to follow; to assemble (necessary items); to prepare
private (non-governmental) school (college, university)
seed leaves (of a dicot); cotyledons; bud; early stages; very beginning
fund-raising; fund collecting
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family
national expenditure; government spending; public funds
kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove
good fortune; luck; happiness; vipaka (retribution)
after death; posthumously
business plan; business schedule; project
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
academic world; academia; academic circles; scientific world; learned circles
first (of its kind) in Japan