home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
working away from home (esp. abroad); person working away from home; migrant worker
leg trip (in sumo, judo, etc.); foothold; pedal; spanning (incl. partial start and end periods)
three years; third school year (e.g. of high school)
(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
(one's) self; oneself; yourself; himself; herself
bodily build; degree of fleshiness
considerably; fairly; quite; rather; pretty
long, slender and well-proportioned; smooth, continuous (movement)
indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly
(physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure
hair (on the head); (a) hair
to turn yellow; to become tinged with yellow; to yellow (with age)
to cave in; to become depressed; to sink
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to find out; to discover; to locate
child of mixed parentage; mixed-race child
to insult; to say something insulting about; to bad-mouth
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
to make merry; to frolic; to be in high spirits
nature (of a person); disposition; temperament; nature (of something); character; kind
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article
palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)
south wind; southerly wind; (arch.) summer
tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
Java (Indonesian island); Java coffee
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
waiting for a ship to depart
setting sail; departure (from a port)
to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
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)
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
this is why; that is the reason why; it is the case that; so; thus; with that