autumn, season of good appetite
Pacific saury (Cololabis saira); mackerel pike
Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to put on weight; to gain weight; to grow fat; to get stout
plan; device; idea; design; contrivance; conception
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
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
diet; losing weight by any method (e.g. exercise)
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
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.
as soon as...; just after...; immediately after...; hurriedly; in haste; quickly
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
abandoning (hope, plans); giving up
mortal enemy; sworn enemy; nemesis
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
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 decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
empty rice field (between the harvest and spring)
meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence
river; stream; River; the ... river
to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
after that; afterwards; thereafter