hills and fields; hill and dale
to put (into); to put away (in); to pay (fees, taxes, etc.); to deliver; to accept (a gift or money); to keep (within a limit); to offer (to a shrine, deity, etc.)
wooden statue; wooden image; wooden idol
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners; small shrine
manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost
to draw (water); to ladle; to pour (into a cup); to drink (together); to consider (feelings, the situation, etc.); to sympathize with
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
merit; success; meritorious deed; achievement; accumulated experience
to arrive; to come to pass
reduction; decrease; subtraction; (arch.) reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryō codes)
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young woman; young (animal); offshoot
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
proposition; motion; proposal; suggestion
some; several; many; how many; how much; very
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
one's junior; younger generation; next generation; moving backwards; backing up; reversing
lower grade; low class; junior (officer)
damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy
achievement; meritorious deed; distinguished service; contribution
beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully
to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind
damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy; depressing
large hanging paper lantern (used in bathhouses, yose theatres, izakaya, etc.)
light; lamp; obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)
to drop; to light; to kindle; to make tea
string made from twisted paper
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
two (long cylindrical things)
three (long cylindrical things); three-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
detailed; scrupulous; careful; (arch.) diligent; (arch.) honest; (arch.) upright
doll; puppet; marionette; puppet (person under the control of another); straw man; yes-man
to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (vegetables, treasure, etc.); to mine (coal, ore, etc.); to top
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
to creep about; to crawl around
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)