to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
(abstract) symbol; emblem; representation
original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal
900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
indigenous person; inhabitant of a country; local; native; local lords and samurai; daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
(not) a single person; (no) one
powerful person; influential person
counter for birds, rabbits, etc.
cloistered emperor; ex-emperor who has become a monk
woman of unmatched beauty; beauty like no other
not only ... but (also); as well as ...
scholarship; scientific attainments
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
person of paramount authority; supreme wielder of power
to stand in a line; to stand in a row; to be equal
plan; policy; means; fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick
to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.); to deride; to scoff at; to make fun of
to tell someone's fortune; to forecast; to predict; to divine
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
staff with plaited paper streamers
to appoint; to nominate; to assume (responsibility); to pose as
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself; artificial fly (for fishing)
to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
to fly away; to flee away; to scatter
staff with plaited paper streamers
official notice; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace
Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica); meadowsweet; Shimotsuke (former province located in present-day Tochigi Prefecture)