again and again; repeatedly
summons; summonsing; citation; subpoena; arraigning; calling
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
to respond; to satisfy; to accept; to comply with; to apply for
besides; moreover; in addition
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
again; once more; a second time
imperial sanction; royal charter; chartered (e.g. chartered accountant)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
public affairs; the court; the shogun; the shogunate
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
arriving at camp (military); (a court noble) attending a government office
this occasion; at this time; now
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
at once; immediately; right away; directly (face, lead to, etc.); automatically (mean, result in, etc.)
attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
all present; all concerned; all of us
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
news; word; tidings; omen
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy
art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
Suō (former province located in the southeast of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
where; which; anyway; anyhow; sooner or later; eventually
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people