to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa); Japanese era name
walnut (Juglans spp., esp. Juglans regia)
seventeenth day of the month; seventeen days
ranger (forest); mountain guardian
moving; relocation; change of address; transfer (of deeds, property, etc.); demise
silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color
substitute land; substitute lot; land substitution; land exchange
Boy's Day celebration (May 5)
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)
origin; source; virtuous ancestor
excess flesh; surplus fat; flab
cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
cloth made from kudzu (Japanese arrowroot) fiber (fibre)
short sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
Iwami (former province located in the west of present-day Shimane Prefecture)
Engen era (of the Southern Court) (1336.2.29-1340.4.28)
death from disease; death from illness
management; administration; cutting up and serving food; cut and fill (e.g. earthwork)
one's own child; one's own children
bringing up; rearing; upbringing
hot and cold; summer and winter
in spite of; regardless of
early dawn; grey of morning; gray of morning
naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata
wick; marrow; core; heart; pistil (of a flower); stamen
strict; severe; stern; rigid; rigorous; tough
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary
in the mountains; among the mountains
hundred days; lengthy time
lying down and getting up; waking; getting up; living (with); staying (with)