old road; ancient road; ancient methods; ancient moral teachings; the way of learning
turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired); arrow with such a whistle attached
field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth
to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan
a long time ago; long before now
Cakrasamvara; Samvara; Supreme Bliss (tantric Buddhist deity)
sen (hundredth of a yen); coin made of non-precious materials; one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency); (arch.) one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)
long (time); protracted; prolonged
sunset; evening bell; vespers bell
to manage; to settle; to dispose of; to deal with; to arrange
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
difference; discrepancy; variation
must not; should not; do not
hostel; dormitory; (arch.) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) tea-ceremony room; (arch.) villa
just a minute; small quantity
kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); kan (obs. unit of currency, equiv. to 1000 mon in the Edo period; col. 10 mon in the Meiji period); counter for pieces of sushi; 10 points; 12 points
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
should do; ought to do; must do
history; pedigree; lineage
bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
the most; the extreme; prime; conspicuous
chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table
practitioner of Buddhism; practitioner of austerities; disciplinant; practitioner of martial arts
counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners; small shrine
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres); six ken (10.91 m)
Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine; temple attached to a shrine
self-; from ...; this ... (in contrast to some other ...); aforementioned
estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage
class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-