(obsolete) The hentaigana syllable that is used to represent tsu in old Japanese text.

(obsolete) The hentaigana syllable that is used to represent ya in old Japanese text.

approach / near, close

you

a job; an occupation; work / job, work (task) / (physics) work, change of energy

to work

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear

in my opinion; I think; I guess; upon thought; upon reflection; upon contemplation / conceivably; presumably

as one wishes, in a way that one wants