ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather
not yet known; unknown; strange
watchful waiting; careful supervision
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.
in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
unasked for; unnecessary; uninvolved
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
turning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation; being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)
musclehead; person obsessed with building muscle
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
sultry; sweltering; stuffy; uncomfortably hot-looking (clothing, etc.); stuffy-looking
beautiful (of one's appearance, voice, bearing, etc.); lovely; heartwarming (of a relationship, state of affairs, etc.); beautiful; wonderful
ugly; unattractive; bad-looking; unsightly; unseemly; disgraceful
welcome; (warm) reception
to come to meet (someone); to come to pick up
healing; soothing; therapy; comfort; solace
every person; each one; everybody
to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop; knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)
memories; recollections; reminiscence
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
complicated; complex; intricate; confusing; difficult; troublesome
I; me; we; us; you (plural)
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
person of common sense; common sense man
group; faction; (political) faction; wing; school (of thought, painting, etc.); sect
plentifully; amply; loosely; with room to spare; a good (e.g. two weeks, ten kilometres); a full
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
so; like this; in this way; this much; to this extent
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
to shut one's eyes to (one's own faults, etc.); to pretend not to see; to pay no attention to; to forget; to fail to notice; (lit.) to put on a shelf
first person; self-reference term; term used to refer to oneself in the first person
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
pointing out; identification
to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to ooh and aah (in admiration)
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
I; me; self-centered man; egotistical man; pompous man
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other