indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
neighboring prefecture; adjacent prefecture
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
continuation; persisting; lasting; sustaining; enduring
meaning; connotation; denotation
one-by-one; separately; in detail
action; behavior; behaviour; (arch.) recommendation (of a person for a position)
fields (of rice and other crops)
to lay waste; to devastate; to invade; to break into; to troll (e.g. web forums); to spam
birds and wild animals; wildlife
considerably; fairly; quite
having; holding; wear; durability; charge; expense
to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
esoteric Buddhist ritual where incantations are chanted; magic
driving off birds; procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house; female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen; street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
some; few; somewhat; to a certain extent; (arch.) many; (arch.) a lot
increase and decrease; fluctuation
mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
hammer; mallet; sledge(hammer); gavel
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
night-soil bucket; honey bucket
creak; squeak; creaking; discord; strife; friction
to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)
threat; intimidation; menace
uniform; equal; even; common; ordinary; usual
terse; concise; simple and clear
all kinds of things; various things; large number of people
prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
rice gruel with adzuki beans
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
nata; sturdy broad-bladed knife, used in woodcraft and hunting (often with a rectangular blade)
benevolence and strictness
cross-examination; close questioning; demanding an explanation
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; spot color (in printing)
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...