person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
annual (plant); first-year student
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
astronomical observation; stargazing
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
glossy black hair; green hair
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
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; whimsy; (having) strange tastes
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique
prince; subordinate Kumano shrine
second-year student; biennial
soccer club (at a school); football club
commander-in-chief; supreme commander; captain (of a team)
draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.); tie
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
companion; follower; attendant; retinue
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; division; phylum; counter for cannons
head of the student council; president of the student council
educational institution; school; academy; campus
emperor (of Japan); mikado; (the gates of an) imperial residence
shallow; superficial; slight (wound); light (sleep); short (time); early
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)