thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
my; one's own; I ...; one ...
to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain
powerful; strong; forceful; reassuring; encouraging
implication; hidden meaning; latitude; atmosphere; tone; sentiment
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
inside one's heart; in one's mind
to be enthusiastic about; to be eager; to be keen
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
to attack; to assault; to assail
territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
to own; to receive; to understand
from now; from the present moment; from this time forward; henceforth
with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; (lit.) with the force of surging waves
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
fellow; mutual; companion; comrade
provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
person killed in action; the war dead
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
ekayana (doctrine that only one teaching, usu. the Lotus Sutra, can lead to enlightenment)
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537-1597.10.9), Shougun 1568-1573
getting closer; drawing nearer; being not much different; being near (age, skill, etc.); becoming close (i.e. friendly); becoming intimate
that year; same year; same age
proceeding to the capital
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit
to supplement; to make up for; to compensate for; to cover (a shortage, loss, etc.); to fill (e.g. a vacancy)
to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on
subject; theme; homework; assignment; task; challenge
conviction; belief; confidence
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
seedbed; nursery; seed-plot
rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings
(logical) true; regular; 10^40; ten thousand undecillion; original; positive
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category
rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning