preparation; provision; guarding
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
how long; how far; how much
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
to manage something successfully; to be successful
extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more
to talk; to chat; to chatter
betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit; use
from afar; over a great distance; all the way
to look forward to something
interruption (e.g. of a conversation)
(for the) first time; something used (worn, etc.) for the first time; new item; first of the season (crop, fruit, etc.)
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
kind; tender-hearted; compassionate
thereupon; shortly thereafter
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse
to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
anyhow; in any case; at any rate; at best; at most
capital punishment given personally by a feudal lord after a disrespectful act
bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
real intention; true motive; true meaning
concealment (of one's vices); veil; cover; overturning; toppling
tray; family; household; O-Bon; Bon Festival; gambler's den
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows