(metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto); the centre or seat (of) (center); (government) office; fu; historical administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam
water-drawing ceremony (performed at Tōdaiji on March 13); rite of drawing sacred water
(arch.) surrounding area; shore (of the sea); suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc.
water; (drinking) water; night entertainment business; nightlife worker; racy; titillating
interesting; fascinating; intriguing; amusing; funny; comical
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; three and a four (in dice games)
interruption; suspension; break
Heisei era (1989.1.8-2019.4.30)
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
multiplication table; times table
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure
foundation; basis; bedrock; substrate (circuit board)
time flies like an arrow; time and tide wait for no man; life is short
proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
linear; rectilinear; straight-line; straightforward; simple
inside one's heart; in one's mind
to put it in an extreme way; to put it in extreme terms
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
to be born; to come into the world
again; once more; a second time
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
one o'clock; once; at one time; for a time; for a while; a time
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to be fickle; to be irresolute; to vacillate
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
seasonal word (in haiku); seasonal topic (in haiku); seasonal word used as a theme (at a haiku gathering)
to bury; to embed; to implant
goes without saying; needless to say; obvious
to be infected; to be contagious