far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
place; situation; position; location
late at night; at a late hour
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
regret; repentance; remorse
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
sister (sibling); (Catholic) sister; sister (female partner in a homosexual relationship)
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind
to suit; to match; to become; to be like
ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan
sub-; -ous (indicating a low oxidation state); -ite; Asia; Argentina; Arabia; America
ought to have been; was ... right?; to do for (inferiors)
amount of material resources
to be helpful; to help; to be of assistance; to come in handy
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
hm; um; huh?; what?; nuh-uh; no
half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality
idea; thought; discretion; forgiveness; pardon
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
(sleeping) peacefully; quietly; soundly
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
way (of doing); manner; method; means
to misjudge; to mistake; to misjudge (someone); to overestimate; to miss seeing; to overlook
or something; or something like that; or words to that effect; something or other
heh-heh; hee-hee; ha ha; (arch.) female genitals; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) vulva
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any
to gouge; to hollow out; to greatly perturb; to cause emotional pain; to get to the bottom of things; to relentlessly bring the truth to light
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)
to bring (somebody into a place); to lead into
envious; jealous; enviable (position, etc.)
mountain (or hill) behind a house, village, etc.; side of a mountain that gets little sunshine; envious; jealous
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of