intricate; elaborate; complicated; complex
device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement
source of fire; sign of fire; warmth of fire; heat
thin (paper, cloth, porcelain, etc.); of thin make; superficial (knowledge, critique, etc.); shallow; slight wound; slight cut
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
drum (e.g. oil, gasoline); metal barrel
fire built in an iron basket (watch fire, fishing fire, etc.); bonfire; campfire; (arch.) brothel-keeper (Edo period)
to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)
to blaze; to burn brightly
setting; installing; setting up (meeting, conference, etc.); stage setting; setting (of a novel, movie, play, etc.)
honestly speaking; in truth; in all honesty; to be frank
every year; yearly; annually
to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to beg; to make a supplication; to see (something or someone of high status)
father; dad; husband; you; he
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
down jacket; quilted down coat
standby; preparation; arrangement
multifunction; multipurpose
stupid; foolish; idiotic; fool; idiot; blockhead
ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; ball hit through net (in tennis)
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to be thirsty; to feel thirsty; to thirst for; to crave
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
staff officer; military staff; adviser; counselor; counsellor
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
to draw in; to take in; to retract; to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)
(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone
to slash back; to strike back; to counterattack; to cut the wheel; to perform a twisting backward knee trip
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely