food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
mistress; kept woman; concubine
innocence; insentient (i.e. plants, inanimate objects, etc.); free from obstructive thoughts; to pester someone (for cash, etc.)
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
indigenous person; inhabitant of a country; local; native; local lords and samurai; daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
relation; relationship; participation; involvement; influence; effect
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine); room for receiving guests; heir; successor
poisoning; kill by poison
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because; as you know
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
strict; close; precise; scrupulous
stipulation; prescription; provision; regulation; rule
law decreeing rules for daimyo during Tokugawa shogunate
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
court noble; nobility; three lords and nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government)
interruption (e.g. of a conversation)
the same age; same period
historical materials; historical records; historical sources; archives
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
confirmation; verification; validation; review; check; affirmation
of course; certainly; naturally
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
in some cases; sometimes; on occasions
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
inheritance dispute; succession dispute
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid