prologue; prolog; Prolog (Programming in Logic)
Bungeishunju (publishing company and magazine)
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
A Clockwork Orange (1971 film by Stanley Kubrick)
library; book collection; paperback book
wise saying; famous saying
essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; means of transportation
mound; heap; hillock; burial mound; tomb; tumulus
opening credits; title sequence; theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.); overprint
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
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
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
study; library; bookstore; bookshop; publishing company
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
double circle (indicating "very good" on a piece of school work)
Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam
Island; insula; island; islet
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
Amur silvergrass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
parched; dried-up; empty; hollow; rattling; clattering
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
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 open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to open (for business, etc.); to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out
edge of the eaves; house frontage
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person
group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
simultaneously; all at once; in unison