first generation; founder
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
family positioned to accede to the shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); Edo shogunate
whole; entirety; to begin with; in the first place; ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
heartlessness; hardness of heart; coldheartedness; insentient; inanimate
maintenance; preservation; improvement
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
careful; thorough; meticulous; scrupulous
town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
to get tired out; to be exhausted
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
to (enter and) sit down; to plop oneself down; to plant oneself down; to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit in (in protest)
just now; a little while back; a short time ago
to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands); to throw into (e.g. jail); to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into
pillar of fire; blazing column
whole nation; whole land; whole country
to stop (in one's tracks); to come to a stop; to halt; to pause; to stand still
without hesitation; with great optimism; (pushing or pulling) strongly; (drinking) heavily
wrong; different; not like that
Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
chance (of success); odds
breaking the front line; frontal breakthrough
to choke; to have trouble breathing
to like; to love; to be fond of
return; reversion; comeback; carriage return
to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run; to start moving (e.g. a vehicle); to take off; to get under way
to rain incessantly; to downpour
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming
to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)
hail (e.g. of bullets); barrage; storm; rain and hail
bomb blast; blast (from an explosion); shock wave
shithead; bastard; fucking; bloody; damned
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion