one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
10,000,000; ten million; extremely large number; myriad
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
human relations; personal relationships
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa-nostalgic; old-fashioned
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to call (someone) to (the door, phone, etc.); to tell (someone) to come; to call up (on the phone); to invoke (e.g. a subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
plain; plateau; tableland
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
small restaurant; eating house
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to fall; to drop; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to be inferior (to)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
before; prior to; ago; the past; before; previously
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
your wife; his wife; secret meeting; secrecy
Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker
maidservant; housemaid; hostess (in a ryokan); waitress (in a traditional restaurant); (arch.) court lady; (arch.) lady
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
really; truly; very; extremely; exceedingly; sincerely
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
as (it is); remaining (in a state); with (e.g. one's eyes closed, the light on); while (e.g. standing, alive); as (one pleases, one is told, etc.); according to
mistress; kept woman; concubine
being entertained by a geisha
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
and yet; though; when; in spite of
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair