half; 50%; 5 parts; 5%; equality; equal footing
details; particulars; everything; every last detail
was; was just in; just left; just did
lochia; post-natal vaginal discharge
dry riverbed; river beach
stationery; pen and ink; writing materials
quotient; business; merchant; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (of China; approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryō system)
vermilion ink stick; cinnabar ink stick
one leaf (of a book bound in Japanese style); one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. a gun, scissors, spade, hoe, inkstick, palanquin, candle, jinrikisha, shamisen, oar); one chō (unit of distance, approx. 109.09 m); one game; one task
iron (Fe); steel; iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.); railway; railway enthusiast
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
counter for thin, flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper, plates, coins); counter for portions of gyōza or soba; counter for ranks; counter for wrestlers of a particular rank; counter for fields or rice paddies; counter for palanquin bearers
together; mutually; reciprocally; adds a nuance of solemnity or formality
group (of people, competitors, companies, etc.); contingent; camp; team
adds force to a statement, decision or conclusion; indicates command; (strongly) emphasizes the previous word; adds focus; some- (e.g. something, someone)
second line of a four-line Chinese poem
need; want; necessity; expenses; cost
(my) wife; inside the home; one's family
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
price; cost; charge; payment; bill; fee
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation; moving picture
Saitama Prefecture (Kanto area)
(doing) various things; (doing) this and that; being apt to; being prone to; at any rate; anyhow
careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering
bodhi; enlightenment; happiness in the next world
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
politics; government; peace; (arch.) medical treatment; (arch.) cure
equality; impartiality; evenness
schedule; program; programme; agenda