bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
riches; wealth; resources; lottery
man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
murder; killing; murderer
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
immortality; eternal life; undeath; undead
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
first generation; founder
company president; manager; director
study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture; (arch.) provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law)
Orikuchi Shinobu (1887.2.11-1953.9.3)
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
party; set; gang; company; person
defeat; lost battle; losing a war
ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay
to arrive; to come to pass
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
decision; determination; resolution
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
establishment (of a business); founding
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
to become famous; to make a name for oneself
Ministry of Finance (1869-2001); Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryo system)
government official; clerk
pension (esp. public servant's); (arch.) a lord giving a land holding to a vassal
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work
prologue; prolog; Prolog (Programming in Logic)