seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
(please) look; see; (please) try to do
to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show
shellfish; seashell; shell
roundness; rotundity; mellowness; maturity
near; close by; within reach; familiar
loquat (Eriobotrya japonica); Japanese medlar
somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
ball dress; dancing clothes
disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
ancestor; forefather; foremother
one's last moment; one's death; one's end
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
exposure to the sun; sunny place
sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
smouldering fire; smoldering fire; embers
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
that's right; yes; uh-huh
another name; nickname; alias; synonym (taxonomy)
place to go; person to turn to; someone to depend on
Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
rule; reign; peaceful times
three generations; three periods; third generation
together; mutually; fellow
national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
command; order; dictation; nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-)
misfortune; short life; evil fate