sum; harmony; peace; Japan; Japanese-style
once in a while; occasionally; seldom; at long intervals
gentle breeze; soft wind; breath of air; zephyr
tear; rip; breach; spoilage; waste; wastepaper
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
to gulp down (a drink); to slurp
Home Ministry; Department of the Interior (US, etc.); Home Office (UK); Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan, pre-1947)
license; permit; licence; certificate
large-scale play; play with an A-list cast; big act; big charade; theatre with a government licence (Edo period)
disk; disc; tray; shallow bowl; grid; board (e.g. in shogi)
rash; boil; secondhand article; bargain; fart
raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced
copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript
brokerage; mediation; fencing (of stolen goods)
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
firefly (Luciola cruciata); lightning bug; glowworm
hunting; harvesting (e.g. berries, fruit); picking; gathering
proof; evidence; sign; to testify (usu. Christian religious context)
bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)
high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
going down the road; travelling; lyric composition describing scenery a traveler sees on the way (traveller); eloping
fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent
merit; success; meritorious deed; achievement; accumulated experience
account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters
forming a chow by picking up a tile discarded by another player
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
one portion; one serving; adult; grown-up; fully fledged; established
sen (hundredth of a yen); coin made of non-precious materials; one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency); (arch.) one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)
ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; funnel-shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); (arch.) rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)