service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
retirement (from work); leading a quiet life (after retirement); retired person; retiree; surrendering headship of the family (pre-WWII)
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
it is not (like that) either
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
furthermore; besides; moreover; in addition; further; above or beyond this
filial piety; being kind to one's parents; taking care of one's parents
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk
military science; strategy; tactics
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
(art of) fencing; swordsmanship
accurate portrait; photographic portrait
to be helpful; to be useful
to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
family tradition; (arch.) wind blowing from the direction of one's home
side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; part job (carried out at home); home industry; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending
will not do; do not; does not
stripe; bar; streak; (weaved) stripe pattern (of 2 or more different colors)
splendor; splendour; gorgeousness; showiness; gaudiness; extravagance
kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)
band (e.g. conduction, valence); belt (e.g. Van-Allen, asteroid, etc.)
tie up; bind; sum; total amount; judo choking (strangling) techniques; last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping; completion
still more; to say nothing of; not to mention; still less
bun (hairstyle); chignon; topknot
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
woman's most sexually attractive age