butter from cow's milk; storax (resin); styrax; toad venom
work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)
school for Japanese outside of Japan
lone criminal; sole perpetrator; crime carried out by one person
to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
to meet; to face someone; to co-star; to appear together; to be matched; to face against
to stroke (something fluffy); to rub; to pat
to run along; to run beside; to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy
come, come; come; come now; here you go; here; when handing something
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing
to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across
harsh (taste, feeling, etc.); acrid; sharp (language, question, etc.); biting; nasty; gross
contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.); submission; post (on a blog, social media, etc.)
one's last moments; death throes; agony of death
at once; immediately; without delay; promptly
lesson; class work; teaching; instruction
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
flinchingly; falteringly; being overwhelmed; staggeringly; totteringly; unsteadily
gathering spot; haunt; rendezvous; meeting place; hang-out
dazzling; glaring; dazzlingly beautiful
filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid
hair or fur on the surface of fabric; pile; growth of hair; hairy legs
four (long cylindrical things)
mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth
to concern; to be related
to slap; to strike; to spank
engineering firm; contractor
to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary