to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
sleeping away from home; overnight stay when traveling
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
Bingo (former province located in the east of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)
archer's left-wrist protector
carefree; comfortable; at ease; easygoing; happy-go-lucky
quiet; calm; easily; comfortably; distant; far-off
sleeping late in the morning
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
especially; particularly; unusually; (arch.) additionally
roaming; drifting about; wandering
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); (arch.) to take care of; (arch.) to support
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
occasional; infrequent; rare
development; revitalization; standing (something) up; waking up; tilling a rice field; drawing a card from the draw pile
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
lattice; latticework; window bars; grid; grating
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
back street; back alley; slums
scene; spectacle; sight; view
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear
materials; lumber; timber
dwelling; house; residence; living; life