by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
lineage; pedigree; family line
(your, his, her) daughter
to be; to exist; to be (honorific copula)
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
head house (family); birthplace; originator
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
Bureau of Onmyō; government office in charge of astronomical observations, divination and calendar making (under the ritsuryo system)
branch family; cadet family; establishing a branch family
right arm; right-hand man; right hand; right-handed pitcher
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
to order; to command; to appoint
imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
related to; in relation to; as far as ... is concerned
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
uncommon; rare; extraordinary; matchless
direct descent; direct line
descendant; posterity; offspring
Muromachi period (1333-1573)
your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you
cosmic dual forces; yin and yang; sun and moon, etc.
confirmation of someone's safety; ascertainment of someone's safety
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
in the same manner as before; the same as always
to advance; to move forward; to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to raise; to elevate
to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)
suffix appended to somebody else's family members
process; course; mechanism
failure; mistake; blunder
not exceeding; and downward; below (e.g. standard); under (e.g. a level); the below-mentioned; the following
practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
in general; generally; as a whole; all in all; altogether
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter
(Edo-period) room for confining criminals or lunatics
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
impossible to do (although wants to)
people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various
to take someone's life; to kill someone
to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (contents); to tell everything; to reveal everything; to open one's heart