patience; forbearance; endurance; forgiveness; pardon
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)
to be playful; to gambol; to be amused (with something); to flirt with
injury; harm; evil influence; damage
that; he; she; that person
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment
worldly affairs; public affairs
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
presumably; conceivably; in my opinion; in my view; I think (that); upon thought
teachings left by a deceased person; last instructions
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
bad example from which one can learn; good example of what not to do (esp. how not to behave); negative example
to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess
fault; defect; flaw; failure (in an examination); failing grade
lesson learned from someone's else mistake; object lesson; food for thought; (lit.) stones from other mountains (can be used to polish one's own gems)
to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
birth and growth; giving birth and raising; development; breeding
history of; experience of
beginning; outset; first; onset
mental; spiritual; emotional
external wound; (physical) trauma
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
going to the hospital for regular treatment
older brother; elder brother
hostility; antagonism; opposition
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
older sister; elder sister
it's been a long time; long time no see
to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture
Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); kan (obs. unit of currency, equiv. to 1000 mon in the Edo period; col. 10 mon in the Meiji period); counter for pieces of sushi; 10 points; 12 points
mon; one-thousandth of a kan (unit of currency 1336-1870); 2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); letter; character; scripture