familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old stand-by
to become insensitive; to become less perceptive; to lose one's touch; to get out of practice
wooden joints; paired karate kata; beltwork
to cross (e.g. road); to traverse
degree of difficulty; difficulty level
to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)
failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards
unique; individual; original; unusual
master; teacher; stable master
one's younger days; when one was young
child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting
about; concerning; related to; -ish
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
survival; survivor; relic
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
dressing oneself; putting on clothes; embezzlement
household belongings; household goods; family fortune; family assets
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
one's employer's house; one's employer; place of apprenticeship
(tobacco) pipe with metal tipped stem; cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey
rustic; unsophisticated; provincial; hick; cornball
thorough; exhaustive; complete
tending a store; salesperson; sales clerk; shop assistant
metal utensil; ironware; metal fittings; hardware
hammer; hopeless swimmer; complete beginner at swimming; someone who sinks like a stone
influencing (a person) for good
gatekeeper; door guard; doorman; concierge; janitor
office (e.g. the Oval Office)
(divine) providence; dispensation
to find fault (with trivial matters); to scold over minor things; to get angry over trifles; to raise one's eyebrows
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
quirk of fate; curious coincidence; happy chance
your home; your residence; you (referring to one's equal; epistolary style)
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
rebellion; great uprising
to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation