law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
study; research; investigation
to attack the enemy in his unguarded moment
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
agricultural community; farm village; rural
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of
teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine
credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest
independent living; means of earning one's living
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape)
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
principles underpinning an agriculturally based economy
mutual aid; cooperation; benefit
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
flag; banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb
to rise; to swell; to be promoted
interview; audience; meeting; (viewing) party
feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province
another time; again; over again; formally; especially; intentionally
proposal; offer; request; application
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
to go to; to visit; to call on
depending on; as soon as; immediately after; as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"); order; program
to relax; to make oneself comfortable
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically