surname; family name; last name
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
lower region; lower part; region below
admiration; wonder; astonishment
to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
blushing; getting red in the face; embarrassment
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
memory; memory; recollection; remembrance
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
to understand; to make out
to take measures (in face of events being anticipated); to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together
false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
union; coalescence; amalgamation; copulation; penetration
jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
dust; trash; garbage; negligible amount; tiny bit; hustle and bustle (of life)
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
no; that's wrong; it's not like that; isn't it?; wasn't it?
antiquity; the previous era
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts
sense of duty (obligation)
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
connection; attachment; changing trains; conjunction
to be infected; to be contagious
to clatter; to flap (noisily); to rattle; to walk around being unable to settle down
paying no heed to; not caring about; taking no notice of
to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)
dropping; unloading; grated vegetables, fruit, etc.; grater; using new tools (or clothes, etc.); new tools (or clothes, etc.)
former boyfriend; ex-boyfriend
throwing oneself (e.g. into the water to commit suicide)
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders
to be given the cold shoulder; to be jilted; to be rejected; to be dumped
to go out and away; to leave
indescribable; defying description
there being no use in arguing (about it)
know-it-all airs; I-know-how-it-is look