thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept secret place; hole-in-the-wall
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
book; volume; this; present; main; head
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
reading while standing (in a bookstore, etc.); browsing (i.e. reading an item but not buying it)
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
a long time (since the last time); first in a long time
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
of course; certainly; naturally
civil service examination
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
senior high school; high school
graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.)
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
older brother; elder brother
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
household economy; family finances
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
finding employment; getting a job
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
independence; self-reliance
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
perhaps; probably; generous; many; much
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
to act lovestruck; to be fawning; to act affectionate
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
to expose; to lay open (e.g. secret); to take apart; to disassemble; to kill; to murder; to dress (meat)