always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
... is the reason; ... is my excuse
metre; rhythm; musical temperament
liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity
by itself; automatically; naturally
smoothly; easily; readily
acquaintance; relation; affinity; reason
unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; wavering (in one's mind); unsteadily; aimlessly; unconsciously
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
two legs; two feet; two pairs
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up
Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
such; this sort of; like this
to differ (from); to vary; to not be in the usual condition; to not match the correct (answer, etc.); to be different from promised; isn't it?
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
Glory to the Sutra; Hail Lotus Sutra
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
ago; since; before; previous
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
top of ...; head of ...; the moment that ...
lion; left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine
mane (of a horse, lion, etc.)
seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that
to say; to be called; to do
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry