uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)
playful; mischievous; joker; prankster; brown eyes
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!
huff!; yo-heave-ho!; heigh-ho; to butter up; to suck up to
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
reading aloud; reading a kanji by its Chinese-derived pronunciation
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
style (of a work, author, artist, etc.); characteristics
challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try
knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
person living with a family; lodger; housemate; flatmate; roommate
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
ridding oneself; freeing oneself of; growing out of; overcoming; outgrowing
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
whitebait; elver (young eel)
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
having good knowledge of a certain matter; person who has good knowledge of a certain matter; informed source
hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
counter; service counter (e.g. at a bank); counter (at a bar, cafe, etc.); automatically responding with an upload slot to someone who allows you to download (e.g. in P2P systems)
to ascertain; to check; to make sure
master; boss; stable master; craftsman; artisan; (arch.) foster parent
as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
while; even though; despite
excuse me for disturbing (interrupting) you; greeting used when entering someone's home