memento (from a dead person); souvenir; keepsake; orphan; posthumous child
Kobo Daishi is always with me (written on the hats of Shikoku pilgrims)
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
fetters; shackles; hobbles; encumbrance; hindrance; burden
taking into consideration; giving consideration (to)
future; possible; potential; prospective
action; operation; effect; function
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
novel; original; striking; strange; eccentric; fantastic
to be willing to do anything (any trick) to achieve one's end
combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination
order; ordering; beginning; start; foreword; preface
two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; cut from the same cloth
in the belly; in one's heart of hearts
full portrait; whole aspect; full story
whole story; full picture; full particulars
mountain climbing; mountaineering
rest area; rest stop; service area (next to a highway); service station; parking area
destination; whereabouts; future; prospects
sign (e.g. roadside, in park, etc.)
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
bad luck; bad fortune; evil; wickedness
snake; serpent; large snake
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts
peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times
stupor; stupefaction; trance; (being) dumbfounded
natural monument; protected species (animal, habitat, etc.)
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
face; mug; surface; cheek meat; (arch.) cheek; (arch.) cheeks
exchange; conversion; replacement; switching (to); switchover
early; a little earlier than usual; a little faster than usual; slightly quicker
halfway-done; mediocre; uncertain; half-heartedly; insufficiently
to be careless; to be inattentive; long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled); (arch.) flaring up (fire); (arch.) rising (e.g. steam)
making great haste, having been caught off guard; scurrying unprepared; rushing to an emergency with sword in hand, not having had time to affix it at the waist
at the last moment; this late in the game