preface; foreword; introduction; beginning; start
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
first third of a month; first ten days of a month
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
rare; uncommon; new; novel; fine; nice
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
board chairman; managing director; chief director
room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
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)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
very young; little; childish; immature
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
girl (usu. between 7 and 17); young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryō period)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
a little; a bit; a little while; a short time; a little way; a short distance
story; tale; talk; discussion
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
reaction; response; physical reaction (to a stimulus); observable response (of an organism); reaction; effect
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside; aside
to stand (up); to rise; to stand (in a position; of a person, tree, building, etc.); to be situated (in, on); to be (in difficulties, the lead, etc.); to put oneself (in a position or situation); to leave (to do something)
man; male; masculine gender
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment