Mount Penglai; Penglai Island; sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.); Kansai New Year decoration (made from food); Formosa; Taiwan
emperor's arrival (at his office, etc.)
established practice; custom
various fiefdoms; various domains
New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor
envoy; ambassador; delegate; emissary; mission
seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
group; party; team; squad; section
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
Silla (ancient Korean kingdom; 57 BCE-935 CE)
Tibetan Empire (618-842 CE)
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
vice-envoy; deputy delegate
our country; our land; one's own country
subordinate position; lower position
Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts)
order; discipline; regularity; system; method
sparse; distant (of a relationship); estranged; alienated
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
rank; ranking order; hierarchy
audience (with a superior, e.g. nobility)
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward; gift
virtue; benevolence; profit; benefit
foreign lands; clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean)
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
successive reigns; successive emperors; successive dynasties
to take over; to hand over
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
of course; certainly; naturally
to rank next to; to come after
being very busy; busyness
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
party; set; gang; company; person