to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
civilian clothes; plain clothes; mufti; plainclothes police officer
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
lodging together; training camp; boarding house
right of succession; right to the throne
to lay waste; to devastate; to invade; to break into; to troll (e.g. web forums); to spam
to be; to exist; to be (honorific copula)
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
future (usually near); prospects
one's home country; one's homeland
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
to put to sleep; to lay (something) on its side
now that; since; so long as; because
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
permanent; everlasting; lasting; very long; many years of
good thing; strong point; good family; prestigious school; the right moment; utter
Anna era (968.8.13-970.3.25); Anwa era
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
nikujaga; meat and potato stew
hijiki (dark edible seaweed usu. sold in dried black strips; Hizikia fusiformis)
vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
together; at the same time; same; identical
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
establishment; founding; incorporation (of a business)
yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so
boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver
near oneself; close to one; familiar