to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
New Year's Eve; December 31
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
low-ranking samurai; rolling three and one (in a dice game)
occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle
to study; to complete (a course); to fix; to correct; to conduct (a Buddhist service)
to prove; to verify; to guarantee; to promise
tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)
to elucidate; to shed light on; to clarify
to become luminous at dawn (esp. the sky)
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
to be destroyed; to perish; to go out (e.g. fire); to destroy; to get rid of; to extinguish
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
decision; judgment; resolution
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)
natural span of life; 250 years old
coolness; calmness; composure; all right; fine; OK
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
one's last moment; one's death; one's end
on the occasion of; at the time of
family which supports a temple; parishioner
banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up
to complete decisively; to do to completion
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
will not do; do not; does not
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
Brahman; Brahma; Brahma; Hindu creator god; Sanskrit
passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
party-internal; within the party
wild; uninhibited; extravagant; rampant
Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)
chief retainer; daimyo's minister
misgovernment; misrule; bad government
to make a cynical remark (about); to make a sarcastic remark (about); to satirize; to mock
to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue