castle construction; building a castle; fortification
at that time; in those days
to govern; to manage; to subdue
to draw (water); to ladle; to pour (into a cup); to drink (together); to consider (feelings, the situation, etc.); to sympathize with
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
family; relatives; dependents; household
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
powerful family; powerful clan
hometown; rural township (of China)
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
letting (someone) die without helping
one's own child; one's own children
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
to exchange; to interchange
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
oath; pledge; pact; covenant; alliance
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary; fundamentals; the ABCs of ...
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
(acupuncture) needle; acupuncture
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
(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
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
suffix for familiar person
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me