wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
knowledge; awareness; consent; acceptance; forgiving; pardoning
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
intention; idea; inclination; wish
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
mainland; the country proper; native country; country where one was born; pure land; Buddha realm
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
uncertainty; transiency; impermanence; mutability
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
how; in what way; how about
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous
isolation; being alone; being friendless
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
in that way; thus; so; so?
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
to subsist; to keep on living
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
to think (about, of); to think over; to consider; to bear in mind; to think (that); to believe; to intend (to do)