crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness
isolation; being alone; being friendless
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp
modest and beautiful; profound and elegant
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
traveler; traveller; stranger
Summer Tournament (held in Tokyo in May)
daily life; daily living; waking up and going to sleep
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
bracelet (usu. dating from the Kofun period)
face; looks; vestiges; trace
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
waste land; wilderness; moor; field; plain
Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)
breeding; multiplication; increase; propagation; reproduction
activity; action; occupation; business; sexual intercourse; sex
to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age
(flower) bud; promising young person; budding beauty
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
ocean; large sea; fabric pattern
silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)
common camellia (Camellia japonica)
thirteen; 13; king (playing card)
exit; gateway; way out; outlet; vent; leak
China aster (Callistephus chinensis); Chinese aster; annual aster
three sun (ca. 9.1 cm); something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun); stall-keeper; huckster; (arch.) prostitute of the lowest rank
sun (approx. 3.03 cm); length; measurement; shortness; tininess
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
variant; variation; variety; (taxonomical) variety
to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)