board of directors; board of trustees
emperor; living god; god incarnate; miracle-working god (who appears as the occasion demands)
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
establishment; founding; organization; organisation
president (of a society); chairman
(editorial) supervision; general editorship; supervising director
going into battle; departure for the front
you; Mr; Mister; older brother; elder brother
Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843)
centenary; centennial celebration
(Buddhist) lecture meeting; religious association; mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance)
study of foreign languages; linguistics
research establishment; research institute; laboratory
assistant chief of staff, g1
guarantor; surety; sponsor; reference; bondsman
wind blowing down, coming over a mountain; immediately after one's draw; winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left
Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
frequently; repeatedly; eagerly; keenly; hard; terribly
7 or 3 ratio; hair parted on one side
publisher; publishing house; publishing company
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
arbor; arbour; suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers; suffix forming the final part of the name of a restaurant
poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
destruction by fire; losing in a fire; being burnt down
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand
clothing; dressing; binding (of a book)
one's person; around one's person
Imperial General Headquarters (Japan)