to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
midsummer; height of summer
to steam (food, towel, etc.); to be hot and humid; to be sultry
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
contest; comparison; competition
working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
remittance; sending money
daily meals; three regular meals a day
self-supporting student; working student
encouragement (as an abstract concept); stimulation
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
Your Majesty; His Majesty; Her Majesty
(another's) spirit; God's heart or spirit; Lord's will
Queen Mother; Empress Dowager
honorific/polite/humble prefix
brocade; fine dress; fine clothes
bowing one's head (in respect or worship); worship; respectfully yours
to recite; to chant; to read aloud
thin; slender; fine; unlucky
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
remembering; recollection; recall; to remember; to recall; to recollect
hot and cold; summer and winter
to love (someone weaker than oneself); to be affectionate towards; to treat with tender loving care
tolerance; open-mindedness; forbearance; generosity; magnanimity
personal history; background; log; record; hysteresis
shy; bashful; timid; reserved
gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently
freezing weather; agar-agar; vegetable gelatin
two meals; (eating) two meals a day
to put up with; to endure; to bear patiently
affectionately; tenderly; lovingly
falling into straitened circumstances; downfall; ruin
daytime; during the day; Japan and China
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
secretly; in secret; unseen; unobserved; inwardly; in private