painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
to be transparent; to show through
to be seen; to be visible; to look; to seem; to come
endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
occasionally; once in a while; now and then
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
coming; going; being (somewhere); (please) come; go; stay
Obon; Bon Festival; Buddhist festival for honouring the spirits of one's ancestors, held in mid-August or in some regions, mid-July; tray
email; mail; post; message (in an instant messaging application); instant message; male
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
father and mother; parents
other than; excluding; without
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
(not) even once; (not) ever
filial piety; being kind to one's parents; taking care of one's parents
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
finding employment; getting a job
Father's Day (3rd Sunday of June)
Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May)
confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
any more; anymore; any further; any better; any longer
lack of filial piety; disobedience to one's parents; ungrateful child; unfilial child
kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful
memories; recollections; reminiscence
to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to conceal (e.g. one's grief with a smile); to hide; to shift (the conversation)
self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness
neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing
unicorn; narwhal; qilin (Chinese unicorn)
corner; edge; (street) corner; turning; rough edges (of one's character, words, etc.); abrasiveness
pendant (jewelry); pendant (light)
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model
to treat; to handle; to deal with; to arrange; to decorate (with); to adorn (with)
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game