failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy
eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment
Japanese laurel; spotted laurel; Aucuba japonica; live tree
doorkeeper; doorman; porter
to handle; to operate (a machine, etc.); to deal with (an issue); to manage; to treat (someone); to deal with (someone)
four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
sooner or later; in due time; in due course
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
when; at what moment; what time
to be negligent in doing something; to shirk; to be off one's guard
longed-for; anxiously awaited
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)
first meeting; first interview with
reception room; parlor; parlour
four; four years of age; ten o'clock (old time system); Burakumin; cross grips
manly; masculine; like a man
to look (sound, behave) grown-up; to be adult-like; to mature
early on; earlier on; from early
first and foremost; above all; most importantly of all
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
leaning to the right; turning rightist; being on the (political) right
rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily
tea-ceremony arbor; tea-ceremony arbour
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance
school building; schoolhouse
germination; pregnancy; arising (in); resulting (from); originating (in)
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
to remember; to recollect; to recognize; to recognise
suffix for familiar person