Vocabulary

advice (to a superior); counsel; proposal; suggestion; recommendation

(sound of) wind blowing through pine trees

Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides

top of the head; crown of the head; vertex; (the) parietal

attendance at the House; attending a session of the Diet

superb poem or song

longstanding desire

offering oneself (for); volunteering (to do); coming forward; going ahead of others

mail boat

remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)

lightness and heaviness; (relative) weight

the moment of meeting (of two people, vehicles, etc.); the moment of running into each other; the moment of crossing paths

rearranging; remodeling; remodelling

stage play

putting one's hands behind one's back; having one's hands behind one's back

woodblock-printed book; book printed from woodblocks

one parent

hope of success; prospects of success

rising; exacerbated; exasperated; accelerated; aggravated

trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do)

underwater navigation

puppet; marionette

demon of ill health; disease

construction; building

bell-shaped bronze vessel of Yayoi period

wind direction

front shrine; hall of worship

joys and sorrows

document transmission

marsh land; swamp

actual profit; practical use; benefit

China

bad smell

fixing one's aim in life; deciding one's life goal

hand-copied sutras; copying of a sutra

deity; god

penmanship; calligraphy

first grandchild

going and returning (e.g. work, school); both ways

letter; note