noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
young lord; successor of one's current lord
to apologize; to apologise; to make an apology
one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin
relation; connection; affinity
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); fill-in-the-blank activity
crops; agricultural produce
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
allegiance; obedience; submission
to begin to appear; to begin to come in
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
stinginess; miserliness; parsimony
or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)
one school; one sect; one denomination; one party; one faction; one group
Muromachi period (1336-1573)
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
successive generations; successive emperors
special selection; finest pick; top pick
judgement; judgment; connoisseur
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
suguha; straight temper line (on a sword)
extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; solecistic; non-standard; irregular
ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago
Hōjō Sadatoki (1271-1311)
Nitta Yoshisada (1301-1338.8.17)
man of the hour; woman of the hour
sparing a life; clemency; reconsideration of an employee's dismissal
entreaty; appeal; petition
obedience; submission; resignation
becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality
on that occasion; at that time; then; in that case