death / (law, historical) one of the five punishments under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, the methods used are 絞 (kō, “strangling”) and 斬 (zan, “decapitation”)

(formal) friend

a hometown, homeland

(poetic) Alternative spelling of 国 (kuni): one's hometown or birthplace

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to return / to go back / to come back

go against, run counter to / go back, return

return