joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to be washed away; to be carried; to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire)
righteousness; justice; right
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things; starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto); resuming work after the New Year's vacation
opportunity; chance; folding; fold; small food box (wooden or cardboard); folding in ... (two, three, etc.); counter for folded items
counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level
(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
seventeenth day of the month; seventeen days
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
frontage; width (of a building, plot of land, etc.); breadth (e.g. of one's knowledge); scope (e.g. of one's work); range
ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m); counter used to number the gaps between pillars
one yen; throughout (an area); whole district
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to move (house); to change residence
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw
tooth blackening; tooth-blackening dye
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
district; quarter; enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; red-light district; wide and empty
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
to carry on one's back; to be burdened with; to take responsibility for; to have (something) in the background; to be in front (of something); to be conceited
wholesale store; wholesale dealer; wholesaler
going out to shop; going shopping; buying in quantity; buying wholesale; bulk purchasing
to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out
one-hundredth; 0.3 mm (one-hundredth of a sun); 0.1 percent (one-hundredth of a wari); rin (monetary unit; 0.001 yen)