flurried; flustered; upset; nervous; embarrassed
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
older brother; elder brother
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
office and rank; an official rank
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death
Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica); meadowsweet; Shimotsuke (former province located in present-day Tochigi Prefecture)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
advantage; benefit; profit; interest
family name; lineage; birth; clan
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)
politics; government; peace; (arch.) medical treatment; (arch.) cure
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
vice-minister (Meiji period); undersecretary
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
subordinate; secondary; junior; incidental
fifth court rank; black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron; five ranks; five stages
countryman; provincial; person from the country; provincial person; bumpkin; hick
self-abasement; humility; self-depreciation
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
territory (of country, feudal domain, etc.); (arch.) counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.
dweller; inhabitant; resident; user (of a website)
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor
impregnable castle; inner castle citadel; golden castle (nickname for Nagoya Castle)
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
to push; to press; to apply pressure from above; to press down; to stamp (i.e. a passport); to apply a seal; to affix (e.g. gold leaf)
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)