small private school (esp. for cramming); private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)
Okuda Ryouzou (1903.5.15-1989.12.22)
letter; missive; note; mail
to turn up (hem, sleeves, etc.); to fold back (e.g. page); to turn back; to double back; to loopback (a signal, message, etc.)
reply (to a letter); response; answer
kind, careful, and thorough (of an explanation, advice, etc.); thoughtful and scrupulous
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
thoughtfulness; diversion; recreation
maintenance; preservation; improvement
reflective; introspective
Germany and France; German-French
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry
chair; stool; post; office; position
pearls thrown before swine; unused possession; useless possession; waste of talent
way; method; means; resource; course
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres); six ken (10.91 m)
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
pains; efforts; trouble; labor; labour; services
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
to happen to have on hand or in stock
to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play
singing to one's own accompaniment; reciting while playing the shamisen, biwa, etc.
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
parting (farewell) address
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
just the other day; quite recently