to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
(some) more; even more; longer; further
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
if it is the case that ...
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
long-cherished ambition; satisfaction
to turn over (face down); to lay face down; to point downwards (eyes, head, etc.); to cast down (eyes); to lie (one's body) face down; to lie flat (on the ground)
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
young lord; successor of one's current lord
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
to pick up; to find; to gather
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
myself; yourself; I; me; you
companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
one place; the same place; (arch.) one person
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
number one; first; best; most; game; round
one's last moment; one's death; one's end
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)