center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
Water Snake (30th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1953, 2013, 2073)
ordinary; common; mediocre
office organization; office organisation; management; managerial post
group; party; team; squad; section
to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
lineage; line; unification; all (of you)
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
as if; the very thing itself
characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; spot color (in printing)
face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
personification; impersonation; embodiment
servant (esp. a samurai's attendant); chivalrous man (Edo period); cubed tofu (often served cold); kite shaped like an Edo-period footman; Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants; enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime); (arch.) he
book (usu. old); publication; document
ceremonial sake decanter with a spout and semicircular handle
being in the middle; being impartial; standing between two things
sarcophagus; stone coffin
until now; so far; up to the present
-clad; in the midst of; tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price); times (i.e. multiplied by); able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.)
(mental) attitude; way of thinking; attention; care; prudence; intention
to think, feel, consider, know, etc.
inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; (lit.) the trouble of coming (going)
the orders of one's ruler
embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; disgraceful; shameful
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
happy event; cause for celebration; congratulations
very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
total situation fully understood; understood; agreed
the Analects of Confucius (one of the Four Books)
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
what was said; what it means; origin of a story (or tradition, etc.)
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
emphasizes direct object of action
Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital
old meaning; old interpretation