thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
hut; house; boarding house; school dormitory; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)
offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)
devoted; self-sacrificing
one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
here and there; this way and that way; everywhere; all over
Yamagata (city, prefecture); mountain shape; chevron; cone
manager; director; superintendent; overseer
lush mountain; green mountain; grave; burial place
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various
cooperation; collaboration
receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me
famous book; masterpiece (literary work)
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
serialization; serialisation; serial story
appearance; arrival; make one's appearance
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters
materials; data; document
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade