to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down
to atone for; to expiate; to redeem; to make up for; to compensate for
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
a question from the emperor
your will; your pleasure; your wish; certainly; as you say; you are quite right
throne; crown; government position; court rank; social standing; rank; grade (of quality, etc.)
to hand over; to transfer; to give up (e.g. one's seat); to give way; to yield; to concede
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito); big three; top three
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo; outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group
seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
to occupy; to hold; to command; to account for
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial); solution (to a given problem); answer; explanation; interpretation
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
to become famous; to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear
Tsushima (former province located on Tsushima Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture); Tsushima (island)
god; deity; incredible; fantastic; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder
uncommon; rare; extraordinary; matchless
honor; honour; credit; prestige
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
arrangement; good offices; discretion; judgment; disposition
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
to think, feel, consider, know, etc.
to change way one holds something; to transfer something from one hand to the other
personal (employee); employed; retained
tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
premiere; first showing; release (film)
tea gathering (for the tea ceremony); some matter concerning tea; family tea gathering held in memory of deceased ancestors