full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
colophon (at the end of a book); imprint; publication information
Keiō era (1865.4.7-1868.9.8)
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
Chinese book; book written in Chinese
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
coherence; order; focus; point
to put into written form; to communicate or express by writing; to chronicle
black magic; black art; witchcraft; sorcery
this and that; one thing or another
absurd; nonsensical; preposterous
padre; title for Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century); Christianity; Christian
something or other; this and that; one thing this, another thing that; blah blah blah
expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face
being seen here and there; appearing in various places
the West; the Occident; Western countries
another world (esp. in fiction); otherworld; parallel universe; different-dimension world; isekai
devil; demon; Satan; the Devil; Māra; evil spirits or forces that hinder one's path to enlightenment
form of magic or divination (e.g. animating objects to act as the sorcerer's agent)
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
completely; absolutely; totally; (not) at all
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
Dutch studies; studies of Western knowledge
the most; the extreme; prime; conspicuous
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
prank; practical joke; horseplay; mischievous trick
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
being unable to read the situation; being unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation
pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
position; location; base; point; site
ranging over or scouting out a territory; searching far and wide (for); reading extensively
reopening; resumption; restarting
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi