tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
fuse; pilot light; cause (of a war, argument, revolt, etc.); origin; trigger
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
in proportion to; according to; depending on
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.
overturning; capsizing; overthrow (e.g. of a government)
thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
honorific/polite/humble prefix
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
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
one's regular inn; one's usual hotel
to pass (of time); to elapse
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...