magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
attached; belonging (to); included; enclosed; affiliated; annexed
department; section; course (of study); branch of study; (taxonomical) family
senior high school; high school
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
nine; nine years of age; twelve o'clock (old time system)
Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures; Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
Kinki (region around Osaka, Kyoto, Nara)
Hyogo (prefecture); armory; armoury; arsenal
Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan; eastern sea; East Sea (Korean name for Sea of Japan)
Shizuoka (city, prefecture)
north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
place in the shade of a mountain; shelter of the mountains; mountain recess
Shimane (prefecture); (arch.) island country
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
Kumamoto (city, prefecture)
the ninth; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
school; proof (of a book, document, etc.); counter for proofs
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
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 sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
regular; normal; formal; legal; established; legitimate