government office; agency; board
assembly hall; meeting place; venue; grounds
buying; shopping; buyer; purchase
finely chopped fish or meat (sometimes seared first); mince; hitting (e.g. a drum); striking; bashing; criticizing
rule over the whole country
passing on to the next life; death; giving up a struggle; submission; being at one's wits' end; being flummoxed
care of; at the household of (when addressing letter, etc.); c-o
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag
scrotum; testicles; scrotal; (arch.) pinecone; (arch.) pine cone
to study; to complete (a course); to fix; to correct; to conduct (a Buddhist service)
to smell sweet; to be fragrant
one thin flat object; one sheet
scattering; leaflets; sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top; writing in an irregular hand
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
mass meeting; convention; tournament; competition; grand event
unprecedented; record-breaking
holding (a conference, exhibition, etc.); opening; hosting (e.g. the Olympics)
drumming on one's belly; having one's fill
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
rice cakes; pounded mochi rice
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
creed; belief; conviction; article of faith
tanuki soup; raccoon-dog soup
swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion); relaxedly
to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
making a person, pet, etc. wait (before being permitted to do something); postponement; putting on hold
good humour (humor); good mood
black magic; black art; witchcraft; sorcery
stupid; foolish; idiotic; fool; idiot; blockhead
successfully; fairly; artfully; nicely; thoroughly
complete recovery of health
to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
to get into a fight; to take up the gauntlet; to accept a challenge
trouble; quarrel; difficulties; complication; tangle
to overlook (a mistake, fault, etc.); to tolerate; to let pass; to give someone a break; to let someone off lightly; to be lenient
to make one's own; to take possession of