heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family
lasting long; continuation; keeping at (something); sticking to (something)
mental; spiritual; emotional
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
sunlight; rays of the Sun
deep-fried food (esp. chicken)
bento; Japanese box lunch
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
grassy field; grassland; meadow; grass-covered plain; savannah; prairie
grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL
clover (Trifolium repens); white clover; Dutch clover; clubs (card suit)
emperor; shogun; honored person (honoured)
martial arts; military arts; wushu; modern sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts
to be effective; to be fruitful; to be worthwhile; to be worth; to be rewarded; to pay off
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
from beginning to end; from start to finish; from first to last; end-to-end; all the way through
to take away; to carry off
judgment; judgement; discernment
to leave behind; to misplace; to forget
to cross one's mind; to be reminded
bad guy; villain; evildoer; scoundrel
full up; to have had enough of something (both good and bad nuance)
to raise; to bring up; to rear; to cultivate; to foster; to nurture
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
to be disgusted; to be repulsed; to get the creeps
expressing one's feelings; communicating one's intention; declaration of intent
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback
to recite; to chant; to cry; to yell; to advocate; to advance
drill; gimlet; awl; auger
nata; sturdy broad-bladed knife, used in woodcraft and hunting (often with a rectangular blade)
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)