thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
body; group; party; company; troupe
magistrate; shogunate administrator
great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
(present) head of a family
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
poor or lowly masterless samurai
funny; amusing; strange; odd; improper; unsuitable
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
illegitimate family lineage
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
if it is the case that ...
adopted daughter; foster daughter
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)
system; institution; organization; organisation
burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
one large ...; a great ...
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z
supply; provision; raising; procurement
one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace
amount of money; sum of money
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but