how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
supplement; top up; complement; making up (a deficiency)
shaking; jolting; shaking up (e.g. one's adversary); flustering (someone)
that night; that evening; over the course of the evening
bribe; secret fund; slush fund; money for bribery
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
to take into account; to bear in mind; to consider; to learn from; to take warning from
to etch (name, etc.); to carve (design)
foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
plateau; tableland; eminence
undulation; ups and downs; highs and lows
depression; lowlands; low ground; bottom land; plain
ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth
wind-swept; exposed to the wind
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
fields (of rice and other crops)
natural calamity; disaster
dry field farming; dry field crop
soil; breeding ground; fertile ground (for); foundation (for the development of ...)
growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history
drought disaster; drought damage
crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
fence; hedge; barrier; wall; railing
to bear (a child); to be born; to produce; to yield; to be produced
Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE)
early (days); initial stage; initial
scenery; scene; landscape
Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)
common people; ordinary people; masses
Bandō; former name of the Kantō region
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
100,000; hundred thousand
to present; to offer; to show; to display; to assume (e.g. a shape)
uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient