trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly; to express (e.g. emotion in poetry); to read (extra meaning) into (something); to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system)
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
to taper to a point; to become pointed; to become sharp; to look displeased; to look sour; to be on edge
time; hour; season; time of the year
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
the way it was; the way it used be; as of old; in former times
ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
insertion; incorporation; infixing
speaker; one who is skilled at speaking
in comparison to; rather than
circumstances; one's situation or lot in life
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
meeting; gathering; village assembly; two wrestlers approaching each other
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
neighbouring country; neighboring country; adjacent country
Shimōsa (former province located in parts of present-day Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama and Tokyo prefectures)
genuine; authentic; true; real
descendant; posterity; offspring
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
what people say; rumours; public opinion
writing down what one hears; account of what one hears
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
millionaire; one's superior; one's elder; (arch.) virtuous and gentle person; (arch.) female owner of a whorehouse in a post town; (arch.) chief of a post town
general merchant; Jack of all trades
righteous army (esp. in Korea); member of a righteous army; irregular militia
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
Nichiren sect; Tendai sect; Lotus Sutra
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of