smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
to be dyed; to be tainted; to be infected; to be stained
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial
chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
votive picture (originally of horse)
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
look!; there!; here!; that is
example; simile; metaphor; allegory
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
guidance; showing the way; guide; guidepost; signpost; waymark
buying; shopping; buyer; purchase
suffering from summer heat; summer heat fatigue
(person with) no sense of direction; poor sense of locality
I don't want to boast but
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to chase; to run after; to pursue
grain thief; sharpened tube for testing rice in bags; sashimi (sliced raw fish); stabbing; piercing
(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions
natto (fermented soybeans)
lately; recently; nowadays
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
to that extent; accordingly; that being the case; that state; that condition