guardian and tutor of a nobleman's child
execution by decapitation, followed by public display of the body (form of punishment in ancient China)
sense of politics; feeling for politics
Minister of Civil Administration and Social Welfare (Zhou-dynasty China)
Chinese person (esp. Han Chinese)
three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)
Bulgaria; spirited; rising; sudden; abrupt
locust plague; damage to crops by grasshoppers
military supplies (transported to the front line); military stores
false charge; slander; defamation
dismissal; sacking; discharge
to do everything in one's power; to do all one can; to leave nothing undone; to exhaust one's resources
implication (in a crime); involvement; (arch.) sitting in a row (in the same seat)
clerical script (ancient, highly angular style of kanji)
large bird; peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish); fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)
office and rank; an official rank
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms
dismissal (from a position); discharge
high steward; grand master
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
admonition; remonstrance; expostulation
during imprisonment; while in jail
receipt (of a letter, money, etc.); acceptance; receiving
viceroy; governor-general
cannot help (doing, etc.); cannot resist; must not ...; should not ...; must ...; have to ...
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
commander-in-chief; Taishōgun; one of the eight gods of the koyomi
discussion; deliberation; thought; opinion
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely