yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
woman; female; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
wallet; purse; coin purse; billfold; pocketbook
to be stormy or choppy (sea); to go through hard times; to be broke; to be gloomy; to be glum
honorific/polite/humble prefix
rich person; millionaire; magnate; big spender; debauchee
adds light emphasis or insistence to a statement; gives a statement a threatening or condescending tone
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
rightly or wrongly; by all possible means; at all costs; at any cost; no matter what (happens); by fair means or foul
residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
feudal lord; (arch.) mansion; (arch.) palace
(oral) message; declaration; hearsay; rumour; rumor
to be; to come; to go; to be (doing)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
consent; approval; acceptance; agreement; compliance
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
at; in; at; when; by; with
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodles, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
(small) knife; short sword; small sword
to be seen; to be visible; to look; to seem; to come
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
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
to be heard; to be audible; to sound (like); to come across (as); to be well known; to be famous
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
lately; recently; nowadays; terribly; awfully; extremely
Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo); Yedo
famous; noted; renowned; celebrated; well-known
attacking a passerby with a sword (to test its sharpness or one's skill); samurai who tries out his sword on a passerby
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o