he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province
lower grade; low class; junior (officer)
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
family working in the forest industry; forestry family
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
member of shogun's council of elders
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much
to take out (e.g. garbage); to put out (e.g. dishes on table); to serve (e.g. meal); to get out (e.g. food from cupboard); to submit (e.g. ideas, opinions); to provide for
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
Iki (former province located on Iki Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture); Iki (island)
babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned
don't you think?; indicates question
cache; place to hide something
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
samurai; warrior; military family
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
daimyo's main Tokyo mansion
daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
it's not like; it isn't as if
(an) exile; vagrant; wanderer; nomad
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
mistaking one person for another; (case of) mistaken identity
to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
it is not (like that) either
(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
depending on; as soon as; immediately after; as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"); order; program
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such