far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)
approach (to a castle gate); front of a structural member
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
fluff; fuzz; nap; hachures; hatching
yours sincerely; respectfully yours
eighteenth day of the month; eighteen days
certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)
order; turn; sorting; obedient; docile; submissive
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
bleaching; bleached cotton; doxxing; doxing; public humiliation (as an Edo period punishment)
addition; supplement; appending; appendix
sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)
sea bream (Sparidae); porgy; tai (species of reddish-brown Pacific sea bream, Pagrus major)
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance
for two people; (work) of two; (meals) for two
shredded dried plum; plum pulp
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis); ayu
grilling (fish) with salt; broiling with salt; boiling seawater to get salt
clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
food steam-boiled in an earthenware teapot
eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine
sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)
Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold