taking leave (of a visited place); leaving; going home; leaving one's employment; quitting one's job; being dismissed
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
overlapping; piling; stacking
to get used to seeing; to become accustomed to seeing; to be familiar with
completely; all the way; altogether; bodily
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
subjectivity; subject (philosophical); ego; one's personal opinion; one's own idea
numerical value; figure; result; reading (on a meter, etc.)
basis; grounds; base (of operations); base (of a group of stones)
without; unless; have to do
to be unable to bear (something) any longer; to be unable to put up with
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably
anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever
assumption; supposition; hypothesis; supposition
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
various; a variety of; all sorts of; many (different)
number two; second in command
coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance); musicians' box on the left side of the stage; lower seat
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust
identifiable; personalized
spy working for the Edo shogunate; oniwaban
to be given; to be granted; to be honored with; to give; to bestow; to confer
not at all; don't worry about it; forget about it
I would be most grateful if you could ...; I would humbly ask that you ...; please ...
going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another
clear; precise; definite; distinct
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
derisory; negligible; minimal; nominal; imperceptible
same family (race, tribe)
miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized
(sound of) footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)
to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
commander-in-chief; leader; head of a group of companies
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
existence; possession; having; limited company
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
speciality; specialty; special subject of study; sole interest; single focus; concentrating exclusively on