to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
hill; height; knoll; rising ground
chapter one; first chapter
game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun)
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
the shogunate (administration)
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; bunch (of grapes, bananas, etc.); cluster (of flowers); segment (of a tangerine, etc.); section
state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear
Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)
director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system)
heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
young person acting like an old person; officials who helped the council of elders during the Edo period
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
to pass (of time); to elapse
now; the present time; just now; another; more
post; official position; managerial position; executive position
to have one's name entered (in a list)
future (usually near); prospects
member of shogun's council of elders
(having great) expectation; pinning one's hopes on