life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
grand; heroic; sublime; fierce
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
Akechi Mitsuhide (1528-1582.7.2)
one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
arrangement; good offices; discretion; judgment; disposition
to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to imagine; to guess; to infer
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)
quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly
face; looks; vestiges; trace
at that time; in those days
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
Etchū (former province located in present-day Toyama Prefecture)
residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
corner; section; one horn; narwhal (Monodon monoceros)
to stand in a row (e.g. shops on a street); to line in a row; to line; to be equal to; to be on a par with
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer
to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.); to slice (off); to lop (off); to cut (off)
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
to change sides; to double-cross; to betray; to roll over (in bed); to turn over
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
great war; great battle; world war
unprecedented; never seen before
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
please; somehow or other; one way or another
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
young lord; successor of one's current lord