rash; thoughtless; imprudent; careless; frivolous
to chip (off); to shave off; to sharpen; to dampen (one's enthusiasm, interest, etc.); to reduce
parent; parents; dealer; banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
invisibly; secretly; privately
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
(time of) one's childhood; when one was a child
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
early; a little earlier than usual; a little faster than usual; slightly quicker
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
pitch-dark; pitch-black; completely dark; very bleak (future); utterly hopeless
to get lost; to become lost; to go astray
to lead; to take the initiative; to take precedence (e.g. sadness taking precedence over anger); to be most essential
back lane; byway; back street; unfair means; dishonest means
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
the Dog (eleventh sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Dog (around 8pm, 7-9pm, or 8-10pm); west-northwest; ninth month of the lunar calendar
the Boar (twelfth sign of the Chinese zodiac); the Pig; hour of the Boar (around 10pm, 9-11pm, or 10pm to 12 midnight); north-northwest; tenth month of the lunar calendar
ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric
check (pattern); plaid; check; inspection; check (mark); tick; checking (something) out
festival; feast; carnival; matsuri
amulet or talisman issued by a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple
hokora; small wayside shrine
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
ancestor spirit; ancestral soul; spirits of one's ancestors; collective ancestral spirit; (in Japanese folk belief) spirits of one's ancestors that have lost their individual identity and merged together
(religious) faith; belief; creed
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about
yashikigami; estate kami; small shrine with kami on or near residential land
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
to pass (of time); to elapse