one night; one evening; all night; overnight
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
staffroom; teachers' lounge; faculty lounge
life; vitality; verve; vigor; vigour; animation
even; if only; if just; as long as; the only thing needed
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
longish; moderately long; somewhat long; fairly long
mixed vegetable and seafood tempura; something pulled upwards; turning up a lamp wick
characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; spot color (in printing)
large-hearted; generous; liberal; placid; composed; cool
to be intimate with; to befriend
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
to need; to demand; to take; to require
city councillor; city councilor; city assemblyman
worship; adoration; admiration; cult
admiration and devotion; hearty submission
to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from
along (wall, coast, river, etc.); alongside; following
bare livelihood; subsistence
making a living; means of living; livelihood
dependent on one's parents
undivided attention; concentration
low spirits; depressed heart
arts and sciences; liberal arts
love; attachment; adoration
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
to be hesitant; to feel timid
to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
approach (to a castle gate); front of a structural member
moat; fosse; trench; ditch
carving; engraving; chiselled features
embankment; bank; beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
fortress; castle; citadel; enclosure; castle walls
remains; traces; (the sorrow of) parting; end
moat; fosse; canal; ditch
counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
to gaze into the distance
scenery; scene; landscape
range of vision; field of vision