story; topic (on everyone's lips); (the stuff of) legend
a line; a streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident); (arch.) the same logic
voluminous work; bulky volume; tome; great work; masterpiece; magnum opus
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
strange; unconventional; eccentric; odd; odd number
inspection (esp. of a document); stamp of approval (for a document)
Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
Japanese national (esp. abroad); fellow countryman
Briton; Englishman; (the) English
price; cost; value; worth; value
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
pound (unit of weight); pound (currency); pound sterling; pond
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
course; route; path; process; means
association; link; connection; pledge (esp. for marriage); promise
in the sentence; in the text; Bunchū era (of the Southern Court) (1372.4.?-1375.5.27)
old times; antiquity; former years
traveller's journal; traveler's journal; travelogue
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
to be titled (e.g. a book); to be named
art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
rivers and mountains; landscape
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances
red spider lily (Lycoris radiata); cluster amaryllis