foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
foreign invasion; foreign attack; foreign force
treason; treachery; mutiny; rebellion; insurrection
civil war; insurrection; rebellion; domestic conflict
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
diplomatic message sent by a head of state; sovereign letter; book written in Japanese (as opposed to Chinese, etc.); Japanese book; national literature (of Japan)
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
the deceased; the departed
the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells); hell of uninterrupted suffering
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
assertion; declaration; affirmation
Sado (former province located on Sado Island in present-day Niigata Prefecture); Sado (island, Niigata Prefecture)
order; item (of a budget revision, etc.); counter for go pieces; counter for surrounded positions (in go)
excerpt; extract; annotation; shō (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)
to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to consider; to concern oneself about
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)
(verbal) abuse; abusive language
cane; walking stick; staff; wand
worthless thing; garbage; (lit.) roof tile and stone; brick
addition; increase; Canada
myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
toleration; magnanimity; comprehension
to look out on; to overlook; to face (a situation, crisis, etc.); to meet (e.g. death); to deal with (an issue); to attend (e.g. a function)
knowledge applied to evil purposes
preaching down; breaking down somebody's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith)
Bhaisajyaraja (bodhisattva)
devoting one's body and soul to Buddhist teachings; unsparing devotion to Buddhism
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
an issue being settled; a case being closed
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
unique; peculiar; singular
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation
to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion
recognizing anew; seeing something in a new light
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection