year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
fourteenth day of the month; fourteen days
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
association; society; organization; organisation
Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures; Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
holding (a conference, exhibition, etc.); opening; hosting (e.g. the Olympics)
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
assistant ...; probationary ...
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to collect; to assemble; to gather
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
closure (of a ceremony, event, meeting, etc.)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
conference room; council room
to leave behind; to put off; to postpone
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
please (give me); please (do for me)
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
myself; yourself; I; me; you
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
to stop (in one's tracks); to come to a stop; to halt; to pause; to stand still
to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder