Vocabulary

commission; proxy; power of attorney; authorization

one's mind; one's heart; one's intention

breach of contract; default

captain (JASDF, JGSDF); lieutenant (senior grade; JMSDF)

(piece of) rope

in a day; in a brief space of time

oddity; eccentricity; peculiarity

one life; one's life

single flower

millstone; mortar

nutritional value; food value

ape man

marriage proposal; marriage talks

straw cutter; short mane

stamping; impressing; affixing a seal

rough sketch; design; cartoon

what kind of thing

fireball; ball of fire

bridegroom

underestimation; undervaluation

memoirs; reminiscences

forwarding; sending on; redirecting (e.g. mail)

sea route

outsourcing; contracting out; ordering with an outside supplier

(aircraft) hangar

(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke)

protuberance; bulge; protrusion; projection; swell

journey; route of a journey

both families

fine article; good-quality item; quality product

cold; chill; cold weather; cold wave; cold air

Japanese person

Japanese-English

news of someone's death; obituary

lower tier; lower step; lower column; lower berth; bottom shelf

votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse

oral cavity; mouth

crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray

grain (of wood)

middle of the night; dead of night