time; (the) hour; favourable time; opportunity; chance
going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
departure; setting off; being used up; being consumed; passage of time; lapse; rehearsal
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
lineage; pedigree; family line; birth
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
practice; practising; training; study
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
bachelorhood; single; unmarried; celibate
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with
letter left behind by someone who has departed; farewell letter
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
ought to have been; was ... right?; to do for (inferiors)
determined spirit; unyielding spirit; will
prefectural; managed by a prefectural government
nature; property; disposition
all night; throughout the night
primary school; elementary school; grade school
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
engawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin; meat at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish)
drawing; painting; picture
blank form; sheets of paper; sheet of paper
fusuma; Japanese sliding screen
to transcribe; to duplicate; to describe; to film; to picture
lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff
to observe carefully; to make sure
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth