almost every day; almost daily
to come and see (someone, something); to visit
to wait on someone hand and foot; to take personal care of someone
willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord
companion; follower; attendant; retinue
to be worried; to be troubled
guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation
first generation; founder
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
nth generation; nth (person to occupy a position, e.g. president)
no, not like that (but like this)
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel
Japanese person; Japanese people
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
feeling; sense; impression
to harden; to solidify; to become firm; to become certain; to gather (together); to assemble
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
descendant; posterity; offspring
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
condition; state of preservation
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
good (quality, condition, etc.); Good (grade); B
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
surname; family name; last name
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
ancestor; forefather; foremother