how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
to do (something negative); to make (a blunder); to commit (an error); to eat (up); to drink
glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; tough period; drought (of opportunities, jobs, etc.)
end; close; conclusion; termination
time schedule; timetable; program
middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
twelve o'clock; midnight; noon
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
turning sideways; landscape orientation
portrait orientation; vertical orientation
though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless
to become familiar with and cherish; to get to know and love
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
work; business; company; study
whole year; entire year; n-th year anniversary
commemoration; celebration; remembrance; memento; souvenir; keepsake
to pen; to write; to draw
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
to wait for one's punishment; to wait before one gets what's coming to one; (lit.) to wash one's neck and wait (i.e. for one's beheading)
February; second month of the lunar calendar
(our) company; (my) company; small company; small shrine
double circle (indicating "very good" on a piece of school work)
terminal; computer terminal; information access device (smartphone, tablet, book-reader, etc.); end (e.g. of a roll of film)
link; linking; link; hyperlink; linking (of object files); linkage