hair; fur; wool; down; plumage
advantage; benefit; profit; interest
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
after this; henceforth; henceforward; from now on
achievement; meritorious deed; distinguished service; contribution
Sanuki (former province located in present-day Kagawa Prefecture)
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
serious wound; serious injury
to bear; to carry on one's back; to take responsibility for; to accept a duty; to receive (wound); to incur (damage)
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
Genna era (1615.7.13-1624.2.30); Genwa era
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
death from disease; death from illness
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo; outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group
Date Masamune (1567.9.5-1636.6.27)
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
becoming more serious or severe; aggravation; intensification
one day; (on) a certain day
effect; result; worth; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)
lieutenant general; vice-admiral
at once; right away; promptly; on the spur of the moment
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?