Houjou Sadatoki (1271-1311)
anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
suguha; straight temper line (on a sword)
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
judgement; judgment; connoisseur
special selection; finest pick; top pick
successive generations; successive emperors
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
Muromachi period (1333-1573)
Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)
or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
stinginess; miserliness; parsimony
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
to begin to appear; to begin to come in
allegiance; obedience; submission
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
crops; agricultural produce
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
relation; connection; affinity
one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin
kudzu (Pueraria montana); Japanese arrowroot; Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
to apologize; to apologise
young lord; successor of one's current lord
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
sympathy; empathy; response
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
foreigner; stranger; outsider; alien
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
considering something taboo; treating something as taboo
to go through; to pierce; to penetrate; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out; to persist with
change; transformation; innovation; Reformation
(arch.) straight; ordinary; common; doing nothing
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
haughty; arrogant; supercilious