vicissitudes; continual change; transmigration; metempsychosis
Tanaka Mitsuaki (1843.11.16-1939.3.28)
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking
speaking about (one's thoughts, memories, etc.); relating (one's feelings, reminiscences, etc.); recollection; reminiscence
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
deeply (stab, thrust, etc.); hard
to stick into (of something with a sharp point); to prick; to pierce; to resonate emotionally; to move
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters
to commit seppuku; to commit harakiri; to take responsibility (and resign); (arch.) to laugh until one splits one's side
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
beheading (as the ending to a seppuku); assistance; help
faint breath; dying whisper; at death's door
now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game
to pluck off (esp. by twisting); to pick; to break off; to wrest (away from); to wrench free; to snatch (away)
hero; the brave; man of valour (valor)
to barricade oneself in; to hold (a fort, etc.); to shut oneself up; to be besieged; to dig in
to take the law into one's own hands
(government) inspector-general (Edo period); upper superintendent officer
pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit
slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery
Horibe Yasuhyoue Taketsune
to surge; to well up; to gush out
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
to slouch; to stoop; to bend forward; to lean forward
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
Tsugaru (Western region of Aomori Prefecture)
attaining Buddhahood; becoming a Buddha; entering Nirvana; going to heaven; resting in peace; dying (peacefully)
red-horned demon; red ogre
look (esp. an angry or upset look); expression
temporarily; short period; once; one morning
to rise up; to initiate (political) action