ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
appreciation (of art, music, poetry, etc.)
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
our country; our land; one's own country
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to
Western civilization; Western civilisation
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
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.
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
town; city; municipal; urban
structural alteration (of a building); reconstruction; rebuilding; remodelling; remodeling
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
utensil; appliance; furniture
ten; 10; ten years of age
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
to collect; to solicit; to seek; to look for evidence; to check; to summon
change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
other; another; over; more than; I; me
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.)
flashiness; showiness; brilliance; bloom; flowers
last days; the end; one's fate
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
than; from; out of; except; but; more
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become