放火犯: (law, firefighting) arsonist

途方もない: absurd, extraordinary, unbelievable; immense, prodigious, enormous

途方: way, reason

違法: illegality / 異邦: foreign country / 移封: relocation of a daimyo by an Edo shogunate / 遺芳: memory of the deceased / 彙報: bulletin

下方: lower part / 下放: / 果報: luck / 加法: addition / 火砲: artillery / 家法: family customs / 加俸: extra allowance / 家宝: heirloom / 過褒: overpraise

法施: (Buddhism) a type of 旦那 (danna, “dāna, Buddhist donations and charity work”): preaching about Buddhism; reading or chanting the sutras aloud

法施: to preach about Buddhism; to read or chant the sutras aloud

放縦: selfish, self-centered, willful

保障: (usually read ほしょう (hoshō)) security, protection / 報償: compensation, recompense / 報奨: a bonus, an incentive

宝生: short for 宝生如来 (Hōshō Nyorai): Ratnasambhava, one of the Five Meditation Buddhas; short for 宝生座 (Hōshō-za), one of the four 座 (za, “guilds”) for 猿楽 (sarugaku, the precursor to modern Noh) entertainment in the 11th-14th centuries; short for 宝生流 (Hōshō-ryū), a style of Noh that developed from the style used by the 宝生座 (Hōshō-za)