What is "taira"

Usage examples of "taira".

Truth or lie to this Taira matters not at all, he is gai-jin, a minor leader of our most powerful outside enemy and therefore to be used, distrusted, hated and killed at whim.

I would like an order signed by this Taira, or better the chief of the gai-jin, ordering me to open my house to you, in case or when the Bakufu arrive here.

For extra safety I suggest you should hire the whole restaurant and order this Taira to speak only Japanese in the bathhouse.

If half of what Taira says is true, no, a hundredth part, then it will take decades to catch up with them.

Soon Hiraga was giddy from the effort of concentration, and his desperate wish to understand everything when he understood almost nothing, but also because he could not comprehend why an official as important as Taira would answer any question an enemy would ask, forof course we are enemies.

Weak with relief, he relaxed slightly, at the same time once again astounded that any man, let alone an important official like Taira would allow himself to show his inner feelings so openly to anyone, let alone to an enemy.

I told him that unbeknownst to Taira I spoke some English that I had learned from Dutchmen from Deshima .

Hundreds of books and pamphlets and documents lie around everywhere, I have access to everything, can read anything, and this Taira person answers my most obvious questions.

Soon they would see into its bowels, see the great steam machines Taira had told him about.

Perhaps your Taira, this gai-jin fountain of information you so cleverly drain, perhaps he would know, could explain to you how they do it, the tricks, the secrets, then you can tell us and we can make Nippon as strong as five Englands.

Stupid of Taira to change his mind over Fujiko, what is the matter with him?

Look how he is all ears when you start to tell him what Taira or that other gai-jin dog gleefully say about their dirty business methods, and how they extort money from others any way they can, calling it profit, as though profit is a clean word, feeding off each other like lice.

Perhaps telling the Taira about the troops might help to find out what the gai-jin plan.

So now Yoshi knew a lot about the gai-jin Yoshiwara, which were the most popular Inns, about Raiko and the whore of this strange and so ugly youth, Taira, the old one of many names now called Fujiko.

To her immense relief all her ladies, staff and clients were accounted for, except Fujiko, Hinodeh, Teko, Furansu-san and Taira, two servants, two maids still missing.