national holiday; public holiday
treasure hunting; treasure hunt; lucky dip; game involving finding hidden prizes from a sand box, barrel of leaves, etc.
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
ancestor; forefather; foremother
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
icefish (Salangidae spp., esp. the Japanese icefish, Salangichthys microdon); noodlefish; whitebait
sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
to give; to do (something) for
police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods)
it's not like; it isn't as if
to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (e.g. vegetables); (for two men) to have anal sex
concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
demesne; estate; private land; private property
the way back; the way home; return trip
to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with
mountain climbing; mountaineering
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
being incident to; being accompanied by; being collateral with; being attached to
mountain range; mountain belt
and then; and so; and; so then
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
trembling; shivering; jiggling; wobbling; bouncing
treasure; treasured item; prized possession
to be buried; to be covered; to overflow; to be crowded; to be repaid (e.g. debt); to be replenished
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
useless; waste of time and effort; pointless; vain efforts