official announcement; proclamation
official recognition; official approval; certification; authorization; authorisation
inveiglement; cajolement; wheedling; enticement
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
even if not; even without
identification papers; ID
if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have
inspection; examination; check; checkpoint; screening; inspection (esp. by police or security)
price; cost; charge; payment; bill; fee
regular; normal; formal; legal; established; legitimate
no matter what; whatever happens; in any situation; rain or shine
travelling incognito (of a person of high rank); special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito
immigration check; immigration inspection
use of seductive techniques to attain one's ends (usu. of women)
our country; our land; one's own country
notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration); being well versed (in); being proficient (in)
to become pale; to turn pale
tea (esp. green or barley); tea break; teatime; tea ceremony
to have a talk; to tell a story
to meet up (as arranged); to rendezvous; to get together; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
correspondence; exchange of letters
stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters
connection; link; relationship
delivery; transfer; hand-over
adversary; opposition; hostile forces
existence; being; life; survival
probability; likelihood; chances
to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor; (lit.) to touch the scale on a dragon's throat
dismissal (from a position); discharge
check station; checkpoint
miscellaneous duties; (trivial) routine tasks; small jobs; odd jobs
seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to talk; to chat; to chatter
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back
(making a) lesson (of); (setting an) example; warning
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation; severance (e.g. of relations); rupture; breaking off