national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)
Japanese Red Cross Society; JRC
Gentoku era (1329.8.29-1331.8.9)
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
spinning; silk reeling; filature
evening; last night; yesterday evening
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
(arch.) person of high rank; (arch.) nobleman; wife of a nobleman
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you
charitable organization; charitable institution; charity
show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation
Ministry of Justice (1871-1948)
women's group; women's association
man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
firm adherence to one's principles; chastity (of a woman)
Yamaguchi prefecture (Chūgoku area)
to look attractive; to look nice
money (given as thanks); reward money; fee; key money; fee paid for rental rights
current master; father of one's current master; minister (of government); noble; (arch.) nobleman's residence
just; fair; proper; reasonable
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
laying (a railroad, pipes, naval mines, etc.); construction
social meeting place; watering hole
to manage; to arrange; to talk over; to dispose of
whatever will be, will be; things happen the way they happen
reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration