circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
other; another; over; more than; I; me
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
hokora; small wayside shrine
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to whine; to sing; to chirp
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
mourning; (arch.) calamity; (arch.) misfortune
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
thirteen; 13; king (playing card)
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
to collect; to assemble; to gather
light; lamp; counter for electric lights
public matter; governmental matter; prince; duke; lord; sir
mourning; mourning period; anniversary of one's death
something one finds questionable; something one finds fault with
to strike; to attack; to punish
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
thereupon; shortly thereafter
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
(arch.) inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system); (noh) old man; white ash (of charcoal)
trough; gutter; water pipe; flume; chute
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
announcement; presentation; demonstration; displaying; showing; introducing
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
dragon boat (long 22-person canoe used for racing)
defense; defence; guard; policing; security
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
(arch.) large river (esp. the Yangtze); Lake Biwa
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
to follow in order; to go through step-by-step
in the following manner; as follows
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)