investigation; research; looking something up
collection of books; (personal) library
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
technical book; specialized book; treatise
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
liking; being fond of; liking (romantically); being in love with; faddism; eccentricity
various; a variety of; variously; in various ways; various things; this and that
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
crowded; packed; crammed; cramped; filled; overflowing
to stand in a row (e.g. shops on a street); to line in a row; to line
book; volume; this; present; main; head; real
mountain; hill; mine; (mountain) forest; heap; pile; protruding or high part of an object
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
inspection; reading; perusal; browsing (the web)
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain
thick; bulky; massive; heavy
leather cover; leather binding
letter (of an alphabet); character; writing
name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa); Japanese era name
yearbook; almanac; annual
mention (in a document); record; entry; statement; listing
to leave this world; to die
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
the "a" column of the Japanese syllabary table (a, i, u, e, o)
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze); peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)
family; relatives; dependents; household
since; henceforth; ever since
influence; clout; leverage
prefix for forming ordinal numbers