financial page (of newspaper); financial aspects; economic front
place; situation; position; location
firm; unshakeable; resolute
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
grand; heroic; sublime; fierce
self-determination; suicide
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
foothold; footing; position; standing; ground
to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress
measure to win somebody over to one's side
outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo; outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group
loyal retainer; loyal subject
looking like a ...; acting as if a ...
day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
to pretend to be tough; to put on a brave front; to whistle in the dark; to bluff
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
in (e.g. secret); with (e.g. success)
twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to
formation; molding; making up; repair (e.g. plastic surgery); replacement; -plasty
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
time; age; chance; moment; occasion
high steward; grand master
hereditary occupational group (Yamato period)
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
place where hair is gathered together atop the head; hair tied (or pinned) together in this position
to collect; to assemble; to gather
head; hair (on one's head); mind; brains; leader; chief; top
to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)