one's possessions; ownership
efforts; exertion; endeavour; assistance; services
only; merely; just; at most; no more than
full portrait; whole aspect; full story
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
to take over; to hand over
reception; acceptance; enjoyment; being given
someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
woman; female; feminine gender
necessities of life (food, clothing and shelter)
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
peace; quiet; tranquility; tranquillity
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
hard to get; hard to come by
to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)
to work; to labor; to labour; to put to work; to make (someone) work
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
behind closed doors; behind-the-scenes; (under the veil of) secrecy
at a moment's notice; readily
good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory
midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year
to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
cordial welcome; hearty welcome; kind treatment; hospitality
to hold one's tongue; to shut up
successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
true state; actual condition; reality
immediate follower (of the shogun)
family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables
foster sibling; foster brother; foster sister
leader; authority; mainstay
homely woman; plain-looking woman; female demon
to be (too) late getting married; to be (too) late going somewhere
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
(treasuring something by) never taking (it) off the premises
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander