write down / leave a record, chronicle

life / Literally, person's past. Used when speaking about the former life of a dead person.

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

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

statement / inscription / mention / describe / mark / Kojiki

chronicle, history, account, record

a chronicle

to record; to mark / to remember; to keep in mind