role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
Anna era (968.8.13-970.3.25); Anwa era
to head towards; to be inclined to go towards; to head for a place naturally
as usual; as is one's habit
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
good at storytelling; good at telling (funny) stories; having the gift of gab
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
society; the world; the times
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
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)
occasional; infrequent; rare
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look
the whole company; the party; attendance (at a gathering); presence; banquet; dinner; troupe
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
measuring container; measure; box (seating at a theatre, etc.); square on a grid; cell of a grid; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar)
so; to such an extent; such
running continuously; firing in rapid succession
surname; family name; hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade
fortunetelling based on writing or pronunciation of one's name
(full) name; family name and given name
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question
immediately; right away; on the spot
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
agreement; coincidence; correspondence; conformity
the more I think about it; the more one thinks about it
Kyoto-Osaka; Kyoto and Osaka
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)