to amuse oneself; to make merry
edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
passion; sexual desire; lust; attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex)
previous day; day before; eve; prior day; preceding day
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.); counter for occurrences; strength (of glasses); glasses prescription; alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume; extent
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
formal; stiff; pompous; stern; solemn; grave
clothing decorated with one's family crest
party; banquet; reception; feast; dinner
entertainment (of guests; esp. in the corporate world); treating (to food and drinks); wining and dining
your husband; her husband
husband and wife; married couple
elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article
solely; entirely; only; or
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
stack of rice straw; rick; cock
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)
small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland
Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land); paradise; heaven on earth
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining; immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering
entertainment; performance
the three realms of existence; the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened; past, present and future existences; far-off ...; distant ...
bristly beard; bristly mustache
narrator; storyteller; reciter
death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)
mistress; kept woman; concubine
tail and fins; embellishment (of a story, rumor, etc.); exaggeration
to intrude; to butt in; to meddle; to be forward; to be self-assertive; to show off