eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
to think (about, of); to think over; to consider; to bear in mind; to think (that); to believe; to intend (to do)
loyalty; devotion; fidelity; inspector of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (ritsuryo system)
(arch.) retainer; (arch.) attendant; Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight); I; me
possession; ownership; Tibet; Tibetan people
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
sage; wise man; philosopher; sagacity; wisdom; intelligence
to turn 50; to reach 50 years of age
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
history of; experience of
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every
man of letters; literary man
drama; play; powerful drug
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
(story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin; the Treasury of Loyal Retainers; Chūshingura
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 do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
Masamune Hakuchou (1879-1962)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
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
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
such ... as; or some such
class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-
entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble