root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
travelling clothes; traveling clothes; travelling outfit; traveling outfit
lattice; counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish); handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
foundation; base; basis; from the beginning; from the outset; by nature
to soak into; to permeate; to penetrate
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
destruction; collapse; crumbling
to come to mind; to pop into one's head
bank; weir; embankment; levee
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
in the event that it did not (or does not) exist; without
episode; anecdote; vignette
to avoid; to refrain from; to shun; to detest
offender; criminal; culprit
to shove in; to push in; to force in
leak (of secrets, information, etc.); disclosure; divulging; leak (of gas, liquid, etc.); leakage; escape (of gas)
to suck (or draw) out; to aspirate
in one's own way or style
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
vomit; spew; puke; confessing
United Kingdom; Britain; English (language)
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
memorization; memorisation; learning by heart
last week; the week before
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
equipment; device; installation; stage setting
sickness bag; sick bag; vomit bag; motion sickness bag