entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
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)
facing south; southern exposure
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
myself; yourself; I; me; you
to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word
to overdo; to do too much
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
preface; introduction; preamble
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
one by one; one after another; successively
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
furthermore; besides; moreover; in addition; further; above or beyond this
to get tired of (doing); to lose interest in
text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter); this passage; this sentence
to begin; to set about; to start
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
in this way; thus; such; uh...
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
degeneration; decadence; deterioration; laxness; corruption
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of