hot spring; mineral spring; salon offering beauty treatments, weight reduction, relaxation, etc.; spaghetti
to get drunk; to become intoxicated; to feel sick (e.g. in a vehicle); to become nauseated; to be elated; to be exalted
New Year's Week (festivities)
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
to brace oneself; to focus one's energies; to focus one's mind
come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see
January; first month of the lunar calendar
sixteenth day of the month; sixteen days
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
image; figure; figure; form; image
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
unveiling a Buddhist image; public exhibition (of a Buddhist image); revealing something that is supposed to remain hidden; opening a gambling house; holding a gambling party
kami celebrated at the beginning of New Year (usu. to pray for a good harvest); goddess of (lucky) directions
god of fortune; god of wealth
after that; afterwards; thereafter
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
crisply; with a crunch; refreshingly; sharply; candidly; frankly
entry (on stage); appearance (on screen); entrance; introduction (into a market)
counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)
Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
second anniversary of a death
night of the full moon; the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring
festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3; lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
to be mixed; to be blended with; to associate with; to mingle with; to join
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
counter for wheels and flowers
government office; agency; board
trial; judgement; judgment
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
first anniversary of a person's death