dead of night; shades of night; black of night
fire built in an iron basket (watch fire, fishing fire, etc.); bonfire; campfire; (arch.) brothel-keeper (Edo period)
time; hour; season; time of the year
end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
doubt; suspicion; misgivings; scruples
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
large tree; big tree; huge tree
long (time that has passed); old (story)
mediation; agency; carrying (germs, diseases, etc.); transmission; mediation
legendary beast; magical beast
growing en masse in one location (of plants); living gregariously (of animals); living in flocks, herds, colonies, etc.; all animate creation
area; zone; (lit.) belt (of land)
foreign enemy; outside invader
living thing; organism; creature; biology
omen; portent; sign; premonition; harbinger; precursor
conclusive evidence; positive proof; definite proof; confirmation
originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible
to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat
absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
natural calamity; disaster
to spread; to be propagated
infection; contagion; becoming infected
diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint
present continuous tense; present progressive form
orderly; regular; systematic; well-organized; well-organised; trim
sympathy; empathy; response
Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
mum; mom; mummy; the missus
casual speech; peer language; informal language
morality; righteousness; meaning; teachings; doctrine; nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)
to keep a promise; to keep one's word
(for) self-defense; (for) self-protection