pure-bred (usu. animal); pure-blooded; thoroughbred
cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties
non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
people who lived in Kyushu in ancient times, and who opposed the state of Yamato
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
episode; anecdote; vignette
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
unit; denomination; credit (in school); in units of (e.g. "in thousands"); in amounts of
else; in addition; on top of that; furthermore; further; besides
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
infatuation; adoration; blind love; doting (on a child)
department store; department
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
subscriber; reader; admirer
secrecy; confidentiality; privacy; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal)
papa; dad; daddy; sugar daddy
personality; style; appearance
volume number; reel number; number of volumes; number of reels; a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk
crow (Corvus spp.); raven
murder; killing; murderer
life; living; I; me; student
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
first day of the month; (arch.) first ten days of the lunar month
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
Libra (constellation); the Scales
type B (blood, influenza, hepatitis, etc.)
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
refinement; elegance; grace
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
writing (e.g. as a profession)
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
most important work (of a writer, artist, etc.); representative work; masterpiece