intimate; carefree; familiar; friendly
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards
spirit; mind; nature; disposition; motivation; intention
to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
to sow seeds; to sow the seeds of ... (e.g. conflict)
seedling; young plant; rice seedling
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
to store; to save up; to accumulate (e.g. knowledge); to build up (e.g. experience); to grow (a beard, moustache, etc.); to wear
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; the four seasons
harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result
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
like-mindedness; (being of the) same mind; shared sentiment; comrade; fellow; kindred soul
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
please; somehow or other; one way or another
(a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead
unhulled rice; rice in the husk; paddy; rice husks; chaff
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
by means of; due to; because of; according to
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
to carry on; to go on with one's life; to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
precinct of a jail; vicinity of a prison
imprisonment; incarceration
to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order
Ansei era (1854.11.27-1860.3.18)
disturbance; trouble; ups and downs
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to come to an end; to lower the curtain
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember