bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; attachment; contact play; sound effect produced by striking a wooden board with clappers
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
to get moldy (mouldy); to get musty; to develop mildew
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
mole cricket (esp. the Oriental mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis)
older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
tsukemono (pickled vegetables)
(Buddhist) lecture meeting; religious association; mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance)
ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual
Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.); Inari shrine; inarizushi (sushi wrapped in fried tofu); scrotum; testicle sack
first ears of rice of the season; first crops of the season; first harvest of the season; offering (to the gods)
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
advancing (someone) money; payment on someone's behalf (with the expectation of being reimbursed later)
money order; draft; exchange (e.g. foreign)
scraping together (a sum of money); raising (a sum of money) by straining one's credit
to compete with each other (e.g. out of pride, obstinacy, etc.)
bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful
not writing or visiting someone; (lit.) road of the weasel
comrade; friend; associate; colleague; fellow student; fellow apprentice
to save one's face; to maintain one's status
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
train of dress; trailing skirt; woman who doesn't work and only thinks about fashion
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; strictness; cruelty
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
absolutely; positively; decidedly
(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all
wisdom; wit; sagacity; prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)
mediation; intercession; smoothing over
pure; innocent; naive; unspoilt; pure-hearted; ingenuous
plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward
to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with someone)
handsome man; sexy man; lady-killer; (male) lover
to work hard; to sweat; to wash off one's sweat
time (three times, each time, etc.); times