father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)
thunder; thunderclap; crash of thunder
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
may I come in?; please forgive me; I'm sorry
diligence in studying (e.g. continuing to study even in such poor light as offered by a firefly or that reflected by snow); diligent study
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger (on two-way radio)
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
last night; yesterday evening
to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
somewhere to go; place to go
living together (with one more person)
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
Harima (former province located in the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
just because; even if; even though
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
such; like that; that sort of; very
merciless; ruthless; pitiless; unfeeling
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn