physical properties; properties of matter; physicality
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
coming; going; being (somewhere); being (doing something)
nice; likeable; desirable
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
Kan'ei era (1624.2.30-1644.12.16)
north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea
to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)
abolition; discontinuance; discontinuation; repeal; annulment
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
to transfer (to a different place, group, etc.); to change; to move to the next stage (of a plan, etc.); to divert (one's attention) to; to focus on (something different); to spend (time); to let (time) pass
chief court physician (ritsuryō system)
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
magistrate; shogunate administrator
office organization; office organisation; management; managerial post
Meguro City (special ward of Tokyo); Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare)
keep on (doing); (doing) the whole time; (doing) all the time; (doing) all the way; (doing) non-stop
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
to be worried; to be troubled
how can (one) do something
to begin (doing); to start (doing)
in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run
each; (arch.) you (plural)
mechanism; machinery; system; structure; organization
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to walk noisily; to walk loudly
to lie down; to throw oneself down
languid; weary; listless; melancholy
I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...
ought to have been; was ... right?; to do for (inferiors)
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
to rise; to get up; to stand up; to sit up
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard