if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)
victory; triumph; conquest; success; win
unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; fickleness; capriciousness
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
society; the world; the times
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
same person; said person; the person in question; coterie; clique; dōjin
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
people; men and women; each person; everybody
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
Yamagata (city, prefecture); mountain shape; chevron; cone
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)