house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
ancestor; forefather; foremother
turning over; flipping over; reply; response; marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese; lapel
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
coincident with; while; simultaneously
ago; since; before; previous
stealth; travelling incognito (traveling); ninjutsu; ninja; sneak theft; sneak thief; tolerance
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
you (plural); all of you; you all
to concern; to be related
manipulation of information; spin
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
relation; relationship; participation; involvement; influence; effect
second marriage; remarriage
child from previous marriage; child of a former spouse; stepchild
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
commencing with; including
opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
genuine article; real thing; real deal
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all