to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay
seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement
anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever
circulation (money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (air, water, etc.); ventilation; negotiable (e.g. shares); distributional
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
mechanism; organization; organisation
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
to see; to look; to watch; to try to
official document; archives
document; official papers
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
at once; immediately; right now
as soon as possible; ASAP
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
to tidy up; to put in order; to settle (problem); to clear (dispute); to finish; to bring something to an end
formality; social rules; social status; social standing; (arch.) amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
later on; eventually; afterwards
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
bowl; vessel; container; ability; capacity; calibre
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
searching; rummaging; (arch.) fishing; (arch.) collecting shells
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
to have a talk; to tell a story
exceptional; unusual; special; especially; exceptionally; unusually
book or scroll that has been handed down through generations; book of secrets; delivering a letter
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)