work (e.g. of art); piece; harvest; crop; technique
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
shop; store; someone who sells (something) or works as (something); someone with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
delivery (of a package, goods, etc.)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
weeping; sobbing; softly (crying); with a prolonged dull pain; having a griping pain
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
at any rate; in any case; at the very least; if nothing else
in that way; thus; so; the same; so?
existence; possession; having; limited company
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
hello; good day; good afternoon
long work; (full-length) novel; feature-length film; long poem
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
chic; smart; understanding; considerate; familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
short story; short film; short poem
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
story; tale; talk; discussion
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to come near (to); to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to reach (a stage, period, etc.); to overhang; to hang over
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
plan; plot; idea; conception; vision; scheme
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short