various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
nobleman's illegitimate child
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
becoming a lordless samurai
old name for part of Hyogo prefecture
to keep company; to look after; to entertain; to play (a game) with
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
pull; patronage; tug; discount
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled; mowing down the enemy
herculean strength; mountain carrier-guide
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
to have (the) courage (to); to be courageous
Gempei period (late 11th century-late 12th century CE)
cost of one's food; one's board
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
round, wooden container for cooked rice
to allot; to allocate; to supply with; to furnish; to fit to; to fasten to
device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity
to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on
elegance; dandyism; sophistication; affectation; showing off; putting on an air
to be full of pride; to be boastful
fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown
losing weight; slimming; lean person
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to dry up completely; to become stale
self-satisfied look; triumphant expression
to be disgusted; to be repulsed; to get the creeps
north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
barony of the first degree; influential feudal clan
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word