firm promise; definite promise
dealing appropriately (with a situation); taking proper measures; handling (an issue) carefully; making the best of (a bad bargain)
to be silent; to say nothing
spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming
to reach a situation about which nothing can be done
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
padre; title for Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century); Christianity; Christian
to favor; to favour; to show favor to; to show favour to; to be partial to; to be a regular customer of
early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian
place; situation; position; location
propagation (e.g. a religion); proselytizing; missionary work
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
important person; strategic person; key figure
close (relationship, connection, etc.); intimate; near; close (together)
(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions
arms and ammunition; weapons and ammunition
to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn; to find out; to take in
regular customer; valued client
coercion; extortion; compulsion; force
colony; (Japanese) settlement (in Brazil)
ratio; proportion; percentage
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
armed might; military power; the sword; force
to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow (a person); to accompany; to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
being under military occupation
people; men and women; each person; everybody
live coals (for firelighting); cause (of disturbance, conflict, etc.); trigger
to fight with each other; to fight amongst yourselves
one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good; lacking
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
riskiness; (level of) danger
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)