(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
ten; 10; ten years of age
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
sal (tree) (Shorea robusta); saul; Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
all things must pass; all worldly things are impermanent
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
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
all worldly phenomena; meritorious acts leading to enlightenment; (Jodo school) all practices other than recitation of the nembutsu prayer
this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent
second; secondary; quadratic (function, equation, etc.); second-order
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
Fujiwara period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 894-1185 CE)
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
at the same time as; while; as well as (multiple roles)
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
in succession; one by one
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
order; ordering; beginning; start; foreword; preface
in terms of; from the point of view of
germination; sprouting; budding
spring and autumn; spring and fall; years; age; The Spring and Autumn Annals; The Chronicles of Lu
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to begin to write; to begin writing; to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting
serialization; serialisation; serial story
to be doing; to be in the process of doing
Eiryaku era (1160.1.10-1161.9.4)
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all