exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
hatchet; axe; wood-chopping; wood-splitting
to strain (one's stomach); to bear down (during childbirth); to push down
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
weather; look of the sky; situation; turn of affairs; signs
New Year's greetings; New Year's call; New Year's gift
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
one's house; one's home; one's family
now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which
the year end; end of the year; last days of the year
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
money to see one over the New Year period
to disperse; to take a castle
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
court lady; lady-in-waiting
adultery; misconduct; intrigue; criminal connection
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal
restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself
obligation; duty; charge; responsibility
to punish; to penalize; to penalise
purification ceremony (performed with water); ritual purification; ablutions
Japanese person; Japanese people
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
to incur someone's enmity
to demand gratitude; to do something for someone in order to create an obligation of gratitude from that person
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old stand-by
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)