year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
Kanazawa (city in Ishikawa)
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)
noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe
Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)
cause for headaches; pain in the neck; source of worry
to shut in; to confine; to contain
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
discussion; deliberation; consideration; investigation (into a suspect); inquiry; enquiry
initiative; prior consideration
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
be (that) as it may; having said that
concentricity; same mind; unanimity; policeman; constable in the Edo period
one's wife; wife (of somebody below the speaker in rank)
to feel around for; to fumble for; to investigate; to probe into; to explore (parts unknown); to enjoy (natural beauty)
passage (of people, traffic); passing; common usage
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
mending; repair; darning; patching up
influence of great virtue; influence of ancestors
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
to be moist; to be damp; to profit by; to receive benefits; to become rich; to become at ease financially
tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous