(history, government) the Ministry of Public Works

(history) the Minister of Popular Affairs

oneself / first-person pronoun: I, me (often shows the speaker's lower position in a hierarchy than the addressee) / (Kansai) you

text, original text

Literary Chinese; Classical Chinese

to write a composition

wording (esp. of written text); words / Classical Chinese; classical Chinese literary style; traditional written Chinese

a half / half

(rare, possibly obsolete) astronomy (see the tenmon reading above)

to analyze