to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
test; trial; probation; ordeal; tribulation
to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off
leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef); omakase
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
every year; yearly; annually
established practice; custom
opening of a pool (e.g. for the summer season)
to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)
concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every
to gather; to collect; to assemble
opening; gap; dried and opened fish
summertime; summer season
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
depending on; as soon as; immediately after; as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"); order; program
personality; character; personal appearance; gentility
to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
parent; parents; dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
digging for sweet potatoes (esp. as an outing); sweet potato digger
bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
(one's) sleeping hours; hours of sleep
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
to increase; to add to; to augment
muddy; covered with mud; mud-caked
modern times; the modern age; this day and age
savage; barbarous; barbaric; uncivilized; uncivilised
care; kea (Nestor notabilis)
playing in the mud; playing with mud
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
pre-war days; before the war
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote