or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus)
existence; possession; having; limited company
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
someone else's daughter; one's wife
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
space; room; vacancy; opening; free time; time to spare
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
for a long time; since long ago; from childhood; bright and early; early in the morning
supervision; superintendence; chairmanship; chairman
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
remains; corpse; (dead) body
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
to understand; to appreciate; to interpret
paradise; heaven; Kingdom of Heaven
coincident with; while; simultaneously
native place; birth-place; one's old home; province; region; locality
research society; study class (e.g. religious); seminar (e.g. presentation of research)
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
arista; awn; (grain) beard
group; bunch; crowd; group
injury; harm; evil influence; damage
gods and demons; divine spirits and souls of the dead; one with (spiritual) power beyond that of humans; fierce god
elm tree (esp. the Japanese elm, Ulmus davidiana var. japonica)
retainer; retinue; servant
kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)
Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)
to get heavy; to worsen (of illness); to grow serious
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria
person of mixed parentage; crossbreed; Eurasian; hybrid; crossbreed