feelings; thoughts; meaning
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)
to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored
daily food; regular diet; staple food
regular; ordinary (e.g. session of parliament); established usage; precedent; regular practice
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
northern part; the north (of a region)
all-night vigil over a body; wake
Kinki (region around Osaka, Kyoto, Nara)
prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job)
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
food and (alcoholic) drink
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
good or bad luck; fortune
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
late at night; at a late hour
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
long day (esp. of spring)
long night (esp. of autumn)
origin; beginning; source; rise
gal (unit of gravitational acceleration)
fields (of rice and other crops)
place where one works; construction site; working area
busy; hectic; frantic; restless; hurried; fidgety
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
rise; increase; income; takings; completion; end; end result (e.g. of crafts)
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
nothing but; none other than
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
first thing after rising; as soon as getting up
once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
seven times; many times; seventh (interval)
Rikuchū (former province located in present-day Iwate Prefecture and parts of Akita Prefecture)
cinch; pushover; easy matter; light snack; cake served with tea