one large ...; a great ...
your visit; your presence
to be sensible; to be smart; to be tasteful; to be thoughtful; to be tactful; to be sensitive
to tell (to do); to order; to tell on (someone); to tattle; to often say
(heavy) drinker; tippler; ... drinker (e.g. merry drinker, maudlin drinker); ... drunk; liker of; fan
to sit silently at a meeting
(Edo-period) chief minister
member of shogun's council of elders
cabinet (of a government); ministry
prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier
haughty; arrogant; supercilious
persistence; fortitude; indomitability
acquaintanceship; vijnana; consciousness; written by...
well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person
inside of a castle; area surrounded by castle walls
small stipend paid to dependants of a bereaved family (Edo period)
in succession; one by one
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
to take one's place; to take one's position; to go into position; to line up
gold (Au); golden; prosperous; money (esp. ōban coin); cash
three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito); big three; top three
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
henchman; follower; (arch.) adopted child
Matsudaira Yoshinaga (1828-1890)
(private) secretary; treasured book; secret book
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
one by one; in detail; minutely
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
demonstration; show of force
conscious; deliberate; intentional
threat; intimidation; menace
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on