(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
duty; obligation; responsibility
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
when it comes to the cause; when you get right down to it; as for what started it; as for the reason; originally
particular; special; (not) particularly; (not) especially
scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer
selfless (pious, righteous) man
Genki era (1570.4.23-1573.7.28)
Tenshō era (1573.7.28-1592.12.8)
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate
loyal retainer; loyal subject
good and evil; purity and impurity; voiced and unvoiced consonants
to divide; to separate; to share; to distribute; to distinguish
favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners
if it is the case that ...
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
how; in what way; how about; questionable
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
advantages and disadvantages; interests (of parties)
friendly feelings; fellowship
to pledge; to vow; to promise; to have sexual intercourse (esp. between husband and wife); to share a bed
disobeying the emperor's order
siblings; brothers and sisters; brothers; siblings-in-law; brothers-in-law; mate
pledge; vow; (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse; destiny; fate
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
Hachiman (God of War); Hachiman shrine; (arch.) certainly
bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha; High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court); title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory
Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333)