may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
previous time; last time; previous installment; previous instalment; previous session
test (of ability, knowledge, etc.); exam; test (of performance, quality, etc.); trial; rehearsal
failing mark (e.g. in exam)
grazing; skimming; almost touching; barely; just; narrowly
Sugawara no Michizane (845-903)
public affair; government matter; duke; prince; Sir; Lord
honorific/polite/humble prefix
elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
brutal (atmosphere, society, etc.); savage; fierce; violent; bloodthirsty; stark
to get tired of; to tire of; to lose interest in; to become sated; to become satiated; to have one's fill
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
power spot; spiritual hot spot; location said to be flowing with mystical energy
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
(many) trees; every tree; all kinds of trees
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
one line; one streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident)
return; reaction; recovery; return (from a procedure)
above; over; top; summit; surface; on (top of); the above (in a piece of writing)
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
end; finish; bound; limit; finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki); trump card
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
with religious zeal; with utmost devotion; take great care of
treasure; treasured item; prized possession
unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; uncomfortable; unhappy
by no means; never!; certainly (not); surely (not); something unexpected; emergency
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
to continue; to keep up; to keep on; to continue ...; to keep on ...
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened
expressly; especially; specially; intentionally; deliberately; on purpose
preservation; conservation; storage; save (to storage)
descendant; progeny; offspring
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)