truth ②proper ③genuine

really

Japan

genuine article

seriousness

seriously

today

originally ②essentially ③proper

headquarters

the person in question

basics

performance (as opposed to practice) ②game ③high of the season ④penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute)

book ②this ③main ④counter for long, cylindrical things

general manager

Japanese person

substance ②main part ③object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.) ④noumenon

root ②foundation

instinct

main island ②this island

genuine ②full-scale

Japan

Kumamoto (city, prefecture)

shogunal vassal

original stock

root ②Ōmoto (religion)

Kumamoto Prefecture (Kyūshū)

Kumamoto Prefectural Police (abbr)

wholesaler ②capitalist

to go to the bottom of an affair

trunk leaves

Hashimoto's disease

Ōmoto (religious sect founded in 1892 as an offshoot of Shinto)

of soup and love, the first is the best

the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals

Matsumoto sarin gas attack (June 27-28, 1994)

fruit grown near the root

all returns to dust

hatamoto-yakko

Kyoto Prefectural Insho-domoto Museum of Fire Arts

Kumamoto Gakuen University

Yamato Takeru