to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
rock-paper-scissors (game); janken
cunning deed; sly trick; foul play; cunning person; sly fellow; cheat
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job)
after all; in the end; conclusion; end; end of a game of go, shogi, etc.
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
with a snap; (break) cleanly; (reject) sternly; flatly; smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)
omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; intentional negligence; tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses
to face; to go towards; to head towards
gooseflesh; goose pimples; goose bumps
I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
hypermeter; excess syllables in haiku, waka, etc.
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to pile up; to heap up; to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax
with a burst of strength; rapidly; in one go
to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
to stand; to rise; to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position); to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
grandfather; male senior-citizen
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
explicit statement (e.g. law); express provision
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
evening; last night; yesterday evening
to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
and then; and so; and; so then
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player