normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
pride; boast; credit (to)
(social) position; status; standing; position (in a company, organization, etc.); post; rank
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
verbal gaffe; verbal slip; slip of the tongue; using improper words
cancellation; withdrawal; abolition; revocation; cancel; CAN
night-soil bucket; honey bucket
proposal; suggestion; motion; initiative
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
value; preciousness; nobility
to make (someone) realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home (to someone); to teach (someone) a lesson
order; turn; sorting; obedient; docile; submissive
straw bag; sack; bale; counter for sacks (of rice, potatoes, coal, etc.)
to be bothered (by something); to suffer
unbearable; intolerable; unendurable
two legs; two feet; two pairs
to blow (on); to breathe (on); to pick (a fight); to provoke; to exaggerate; to ask (an unreasonable price)
to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly
government office; public office
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
to slap; to strike; to spank
young persons' association
Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)
exhilarating; thrilling; intensely pleasurable
impertinent; saucy; cheeky; impudent; audacious; cocky
sketch (depicting real people or nature); drawing sketched from real life; magic-lantern picture; child's copying pictures; mirror image (e.g. of society); (metaphorical) depiction
simple and honest; unsophisticated; simpleminded; naive; unspoiled
proposal; proposition; suggestion
drama; theatre; theater; play
labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work
encouragement; inspiration; rousing; stirring up; raising (e.g. morale)
(story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin; the Treasury of Loyal Retainers; Chūshingura
filial piety; being kind to one's parents; taking care of one's parents
thanks; gratitude; appreciation; thankfulness
to peel (roughly); to tear off; to rip off
corner; section; one horn; pillar (of a group, system, etc.); member (of an organization, etc.); first corner
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
bōryokudan; gangster organization (organisation); crime syndicate; yakuza