last night; yesterday evening
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
wharf; bridge; jetty; pier
departure from a port; leaving port; setting sail
(sea) voyage; navigation; sailing; passage; cruise
forward; frontward; ahead; rectangular front
to reflect; to throw back light
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
hill; height; knoll; rising ground
announcement (esp. over public-address system); official announcement; formal information release
entry into port; arriving in harbor
faint outlines of an island; vague shape of an island; silhouette of an island
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
to face on; to look out on to
opposite side; opposition
Kuroshio Current; Japan Current
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current
use; utilization; utilisation; application
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
Shugendō; Japanese mountain asceticism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts
(sect) founder; apostle; originator; inventor
mountain range; mountain system
foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base
Reineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts)
in the following manner; as follows
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
pupil; disciple; adherent; follower; apprentice; young person
subordinate; secondary; junior; incidental
fifth court rank; black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron; five ranks; five stages