to be intimate with; to befriend
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.); (arch.) consort of the emperor
to think of; to come up with
beautiful custom; fine custom; good custom
sympathy; consideration; (arch.) service; (arch.) labor; (arch.) illness; (arch.) disease
approval; agreement; support; favour; favor
flamboyant; extravagant; showy; attention-seeking
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
prosperity; thriving; flourishing
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
waste; lavish spending; dissipation
to balance the accounts; to make consistent; to make coherent
decisive action; carrying out; resolute enforcement; execution
Hōei era (1704.3.13-1711.4.25)
dignity; grace; nobility; grade; quality; fineness
Keichō era (1596.10.27-1615.7.13)
one thin flat object; one sheet
one vehicle; one ryō (an old coin)
monme (unit of weight, 3.75 g); monme; Edo period silver coin worth between 1/50th-1/80th of a ryō
division by 1000; one-thousandth
one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; three and a four (in dice games)
verdigris; green rust; copper rust
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
dilution; watering down; inflation (of budget, claim, etc.); padding
5,000,000; five million; (arch.) many
to make one's own; to take possession of
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
to jump up; to spring up; to jump (market, price, etc.); to rise sharply; to act rashly; to jump the gun
foot of a mountain; plain at the foot of a mountain; range; spread; extent
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
to clamour; to crowd; to jostle
timidly; nervously; with nervous diffidence; trembling with fear
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
round-faced; bulging at the bottom; swelling toward the bottom
fully; luxuriantly; fluffy; plump; soft and full
round and cute (esp. of eyes)