Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)
Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica); meadowsweet; Shimotsuke (former province located in present-day Tochigi Prefecture)
Hitachi (former province located in the major part of present-day Ibaraki Prefecture)
Kazusa (former province located in the central part of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
Shimōsa (former province located in parts of present-day Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama and Tokyo prefectures)
Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)
corresponding to; being applicable to; being relevant to; coming under; falling under; fulfilling (requirements)
proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)
emperor; ruler (with a heavenly mandate); heavenly being; celestial being
to place (in relation to the whole); to rank; to position; to locate
branch office; agency; sub-branch
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
eradication; extermination; rooting out; stamping out; getting rid of
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
in the mountains; within the grounds of a temple
assessment; rating; grade; evaluation
highest rank; highest position; high-end; highest-order; most-significant (e.g. bit)
high rice field; very fertile rice field
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining; immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering
essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic
outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo; outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group
Utsunomiya (city in Tochigi)
wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
official size of a tatami mat for measuring room size (esp. a Kyoto-size tatami mat); basic rhythm (in traditional Japanese music); (arch.) room (in a brothel) of a prostitute of the highest rank
tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room; dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting