administration; government; administrator; governor
audience seating (noh theater); audience (esp. in noh)
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch
nobles and soldiers; imperial court
to command; to order; to tell (to do); to appoint (to the post of)
a wise idea; polite reference to another's consideration
perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot
green calabash; unripe gourd; scrawny, pale person; sallow-faced person
manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period)
higonokami; type of folding knife with metal handle
old maid; frump; hag; old woman
gutsy; fearless; unwavering
taking someone around; guidance; (arch.) parading a criminal through town before their execution (Edo period)
travelling on foot; traveling on foot; travelling all over
feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch
drill (esp. military); training
needlework; sewing; seamstress
thoughts; opinion; however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.); fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love
the shogunate (administration)
the "ha" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ha, hi, fu, he, ho)
regrettable; unsatisfactory; deplorable; lamentable
contest between two groups; intra-squad game
to divide (by); to remove; to exclude
smallpox; variola; pockmark; pock
fateful; decisive (e.g. war)
revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan)
to accompany; to follow; to assemble (necessary items); to prepare
seed leaves (of a dicot); cotyledons; bud; early stages; very beginning
Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family
to be awash with; to teem with; to be full of