practical business; practical work experience; practicum; practice
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
each; (arch.) you (plural)
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)
rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings
care; looking after; trouble; bother; good offices; recommendation
to be free; to be available
to show unwillingness (to do); to be reluctant (to do); to look annoyed; to show signs of finding something bothersome
weeding; weeder; weeding fork
undesirable lover (boyfriend, girlfriend); passion; temper; irritability
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
common knowledge; being well-known; making (something) well-known
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
land survey; cadastral survey
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
opening; gap; dried and opened fish
exposure to the sun; sunny place; per day
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
rice cultivation; rice farming
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)
variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres); six ken (10.91 m)
step; stride; counter for steps
a long time ago; in those days
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
gauge; standard; length; size; (measuring) rule; scale