salary (esp. public employees); wages; pay
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
lending (money); finance; loan; adaptability; versatility; flexibility
to find a way; to find the time; to try to make oneself available
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
Hyūga (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture); Hyūga (city)
futures; credit (buying); stretching; total (preceding counter, unit, etc.); aggregate
one grade; first-class; primary
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
to be responsible for; to bear the responsibility of
he; she; samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period
different school (e.g. of ikebana)
profitable plan; good plan
talk; conversation; dialogue
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
first 17-syllable verse of a renga; haiku; first five-syllable line of a tanka
hairdresser; hairdressing
Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; funnel-shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); (arch.) rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
of course; certainly; naturally
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
Miyazaki (city, prefecture)
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
half and half; fifty-fifty
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess
(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; whimsy; (having) strange tastes