clumsy (work); awkward; poorly made; ugly (of a person); unattractive; plain
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus)
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
first come, first served; the early bird catches the worm
to run; to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to rush (to); to dash; to retreat; to flee
to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
where; which; anyway; anyhow; sooner or later; eventually
exit; gateway; way out; outlet; vent; leak
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
attending someone through the night (guard, nurse); act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding); keeping overnight vigil over body before burial
to have the privilege of doing
to say; to be called; to do
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef); omakase
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)
hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
(licensed) red light district
to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse
one night; all night; overnight; one evening
to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important