precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
now; the present time; just now; another; more
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
appalling; awful; extreme pain; deep sorrow
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
every conceivable; every single; every possible; all kinds of
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
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.
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
to dye; to colour; to color
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (contents); to tell everything; to reveal everything; to open one's heart
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
innumerable; countless; numberless
short sword; dagger; stiletto; hour hand (of a clock)
to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out
needle-point holder (in ikebana); frog
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
antiquity; the previous era
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
to commit a crime; to commit a sin
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
like this; this sort; this way
incredibly brutal; gory; gruesome
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement