happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
destruction; collapse; crumbling
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
daimyo's main Tokyo mansion
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
not only ... (but also); not just; as well as
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
master; expert; mansion; large house; rich family; distinguished family
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
prosperity; flourishing; thriving
Yoshida Shouin (1830.9.20-1859.11.21)
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan)
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
natural disaster; cataclysm
to follow in succession; to happen one after another
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
(period of) a year; during an era
wherein; therein; thereinto
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
don't you think?; indicates question
to steal; to plagiarize; to steal (a technique, idea, etc.); to do stealthily; to do during scant time; to steal a base
seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
moneylending; moneylender