vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki
the number of people; many people; a large number of people; (counted as an) adult
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
sleepless vigil; night watch; vigilance
counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
trespassing; intrusion; to barge into; to burst into; to trespass
to furnish with; to equip with; to prepare for; to make preparations for; to possess (all that is needed); to be endowed with
everywhere; all over; throughout
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
difference in grades (e.g. in go, shoji, etc.); difference in level (e.g. road, footpath); ramp; steps
to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
top of ...; head of ...; the moment that ...
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
to come and see (someone, something); to visit
on the street; around town; the world; the public
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
authenticity; credibility
opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows
spreading; laying out; security deposit; Japanese mattress
outside of; not covered by
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)
town-watches from the Edo period
hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
usually; ordinarily; always; continuous; 24-hour (operation, care, etc.); constant
watch-keeping; guard; lookout
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
strict; severe; stringent; rigorous; rigid; firm
to investigate; to examine
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
alert status; emergency alert