(Edo-period) room for confining criminals or lunatics
to lock up; to shut up; to imprison
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
while; even though; despite
school affairs; religious affairs
government service; the bureaucracy
to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order
subject; theme; homework; assignment; task; challenge
to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
if it is the case that ...
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
change of tone; variation (music); irregularity; modulation (in radio)
to cause; to induce; to bring about a result or state; to produce
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
environment; circumstance
to live through; to survive
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to
to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to pull through; to get over; to surpass; to outdo
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
regret; repentance; remorse
very young; little; childish; immature
three; three years of age
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
in that way; thus; so; so?
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
to fall incessantly (rain, snow, etc.); to downpour
opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person
glaring; flaming; fiery; blazing
to boil; to come to a boil; to seethe (with rage, etc.); to be furious
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
regret; chagrin; mortification; freedom from obstructive thoughts
to dispel; to clear away; to accomplish a goal; (arch.) to make it sunny; (arch.) to make clouds disappear
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality