chapter one; first chapter
postponement; adjournment
festivities; celebration; wedding; marriage ceremony
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
terraced or partitioned housing structure
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; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
one's own convenience; one's way; surroundings; environment; convenience; ease of use; financial circumstances
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 hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
household; home; family; housekeeping
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out; to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
to differ (from); to vary; to not be in the usual condition; to not match the correct (answer, etc.); to be different from promised; isn't it?
fusuma; Japanese sliding screen
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
third day of the month; three days
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)