blond hair ("kinpatsu" read backwards)
handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade
material; substance; matter
transfer; redirection; transmission; forwarding (telephone call, e-mail, etc.)
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
friend; companion; comrade; accompaniment; companion (e.g. book); complement
small dish (usu. one of several accompanying rice); side dish; fill; fill-in (drumming); jack-off material; something to masturbate to
to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; intentional negligence; tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)
mum; mom; mummy; the missus
favorite; favourite; habitually used
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
being together; going together; matching (clothing); going together
slowly and quietly; smoothly
work (e.g. of art); production; harvest; cultivation; technique
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
crossing; intersection; (genetic) crossing over
bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; tether; fetters
to weigh on one's mind; to be worried about (something)
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
to cause; to induce; to bring about a result or state; to produce
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
disqualification; elimination; incapacity; being unfit for one's role; being a failure
underling; loser; low-ranking samurai
magistrate; shogunate administrator
to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
to jump up; to spring up; to jump (market, price, etc.); to rise sharply; to act rashly; to jump the gun
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
tea drinking; teahouse; tearoom; coffee lounge
horse native to Hokkaido; person born and raised in Hokkaido
to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)