good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
fiftieth day after the birth of a child; fifty days
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
southern country; southern provinces; southern lands
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
grand; magnificent; majestic; great; sublime
clouds that stand like a mountain peak during the summer
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
Tokushima (city, prefecture)
land near a castle; castle town
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
flat; even; level; plain (language, words, etc.); simple
to be seen; to be visible; to look; to seem; to come
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to burn; to burn down; to be roasted; to be thoroughly cooked; to be sunburnt; to fade (in the sun); to glow red (i.e. of the sky at sunset)
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly
to shine on; to illuminate; to compare (with); to refer to
interval; break; pause; gap (e.g. in the clouds); rift; cleft
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
mason; stonemason; stonecutter
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
blazing heat; scorching sun
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
to be discouraged; to shrink from
honorific/polite/humble prefix
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
to be heard; to be audible; to sound (like); to come across (as); to be well known; to be famous
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
lazy; idle; indolent; slothful
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.