bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice
disappearance; vanishing; loss; dying away; wearing off
standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing
to gouge; to hollow out; to greatly perturb; to cause emotional pain; to get to the bottom of things; to relentlessly bring the truth to light
to set foot into; to enter; to step inside; to cross the threshold
even if; even though; even; too; whether ... or ...; no matter (what, where, who, etc.)
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
I don't know ...; how about ...?; I wonder; what about ..?
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance); to overlook; to omit; to deviate
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
to throw; to fling; to heave; to toss
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
to stoop; to bend (e.g. one's knees)
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
to attract; to draw near; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion
fit; spasm; attack; seizure
to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
shirt (undergarment); undershirt; singlet; shirt (outerwear; usu. with collar and buttons)
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity
warmly; cordially; with tender care
to hide; to keep to oneself
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable
to redeem (from sin); to save
to find out; to discover; to locate
halfway up (down) a mountain; mountainside
looking good; sounding good; (of) good appearance
mark; sign; symbol; emblem; badge; crest
vacant house; unoccupied house
ascent; uphill; upward slope; (gradual) upturn; increase
dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; end; end of the road; end point
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
being unhuman; being removed from humanity; being unworldly