straight; directly; voyage; journey; straight road
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
engine; agency; organisation; system; facility
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
at leisure; in a relaxed manner; in a carefree manner; quietly; peacefully
dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
to say everything one wants to say; to exhaust a topic
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost
Chinese martial arts; kung fu; wushu; kenpō (martial arts); kempo
no time like the present; make hay while the sun shines; (lit.) it's an auspicious day (for doing it) when you've just had the idea
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
to pick out (with the fingers); to pull out; to throw out (e.g. of a bar); to drag out; to chuck out
every place; various places
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
(death from) starvation; starving to death
to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
ruins (of a building, town, etc.); remains
to stray into; to lose one's way (and enter); to wander into
mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
stomach ache; abdominal pain
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to work out; to think out; to devise; to invent
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)
translation; deciphering; decoding; translation
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
uncertainty; insecurity; inconstancy; indefinite; undecided
wave motion; undulation; surge; wave
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
ruined temple; abandoned temple; temple ruins; closing a temple
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
slight movement; slight tremor; quiver
sense of touch; tactile; tactual; hair style with long bangs
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)