to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)
banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system
to accuse somebody; to charge someone
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
counter for tours, cycles, rounds, circuits, etc.
charge; grounds; suspicion
to calculate; to compute; to deduce; to infer; to conclude
three mountains; three shrines (of Kumano); three kingdoms (of 14th and 15th-century Okinawa)
imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective
self-justification; excuse
sea god; Poseidon; Neptune; sea; ocean
flag; banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
simultaneous; concurrent; same time; synchronous; together
short preface; brief foreword
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
common knowledge; being well-known; making (something) well-known
triangle; triangular shape
certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
postscript; post scriptum; PS; P.S.
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)
Silla (ancient Korean kingdom; 57 BCE-935 CE)
sudden rise to power; sudden rise in prosperity
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
clerk; secretary; writing down; putting on record
to make; to make (something) what it should be; to cause to be
rash; thoughtless; imprudent; careless; frivolous
care; precaution; guarding; caution
to be needed; to be wanted
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically
pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji); way of reading (out loud); interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading
mutual affection; mutual love
flying; leaping; zero; naught; flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo); running out of points (zero or fewer)
artificiality; pretence; contrived act; commission (of a crime); feasance
plainly; clearly; vividly
one's course; one's path; one's road
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
ease; comfort; feeling at home