listen!; you see; mind you; remember
war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces
to disrupt; to ruin; to hinder; to thwart
strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot
father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
high; tall; expensive; high-priced; high (level); above average (in degree, quality, etc.)
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
feudal decree; edict by a daimyo
to run counter to; to go against; to disobey; to infringe
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)
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
such; like that; that sort of; very
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
style; way; shape; form; appearance; state
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
which way; which direction; which one (esp. of two alternatives); who
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
transactions; dealings; business
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
to become better; to improve
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
ronin; masterless samurai
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
to flap strongly; to stir up fiercely
round-up (e.g. of criminals); wholesale arrest; catching the whole herd with one throw