year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
palm; open hand; playing on equal terms; lack of handicap
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan; eastern sea; East Sea (Korean name for Sea of Japan)
leadership competition; power struggle
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on
conical hat (East-Asian style); coolie hat; something shaped like a conical hat or an umbrella; shade (of a lamp); mushroom cap
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome
unhurt; uninjured; flawless (e.g. gem); unblemished; spotless (e.g. reputation); faultless (e.g. performance)
in that way; thus; so; so?