to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
government; administration
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
cabinet (of a government); ministry
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
at that time; in those days
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
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)
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
after that; afterwards; thereafter