the old days; the past; former times; the past ten years; the past decade
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
way; manner; school (e.g. of flower arrangement); class; rate; flow
to envision how things will turn out (usu. unfortunate); to have foresight; to be able to see the future
tooth; teeth; tooth (of a comb, saw, etc.); cog; support (of a geta)
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
labyrinth; maze; mystery; dungeon
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
demon; devil; evil spirit; monster; goblin; apparition
neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing
counter for helmets, etc.
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
several; a few; number; quantity; counting; calculation; number
reduction; decrease; subtraction; (arch.) reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryō codes)
compensation; equivalent value; consideration
(sound of) footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
life; living; I; me; student
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
department (in an organization, company, etc.); division; club (at a school, university, etc.); team; part; portion
hitting a ball (with a bat, golf club, etc.); batting; stroke
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
while alive; during one's lifetime
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on