long-established shop; shop of long standing; old shop
ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn or restaurant); landlady; hostess; mistress
steep (mountain); precipitous; hard (life); difficult; troubled
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
(corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency; commercial failure; failed business
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection
after that; afterwards; thereafter
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
new store; newly-opened store
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
evaporation; disappearance (of people intentionally concealing their whereabouts); unexplained disappearance
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
police; police officer; police station
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage