• 昔むかし

  the old days, the past, former times, a long time ago

• 昔話むかしばなし

  old tale, folk tale, legend

• 大昔おおむかし

  ancient times, prehistoric times, the distant past, a very long time ago

• 一昔ひとむかし

  an age (ago), a long time (ago), a decade (ago)

• 今昔こんじゃく

  past and present

• 昔のままむかしのまま

  the way it was, the way it used be, as of old, in former times

• 昔日せきじつ

  old days

• 昔時せきじ

  old times, former times

• 昔風むかしふう

  old-fashioned, old-style

• 昔者むかしもの

  old person, old-fashioned person

• 昔々むかしむかし

  long ago, once upon a time

• 昔年せきねん

  old times, antiquity, former years

• 昔式むかししき

  old fashioned, in ancient style

• 昔人むかしびと

  previous generations, people of the past, ancients

• 昔兎むかしうさぎ

  paleolagine lagomorph (Paleolaginae spp., incl. the Amami rabbit and the red rock hares)

• 往昔おうせき

  ancient times

• 二昔ふたむかし

  way in the past, two (or so) decades (ago)

• 古昔こせき

  ancient times

• 昔語りむかしがたり

  old story, reminiscence

• 昔人間むかしにんげん

  old-fashioned person, old-timer, old fogey

• 昔気質むかしかたぎ

  old-fashioned way of thinking, old-fashioned spirit

• 昔沙蚕むかしごかい

  archiannelids of the genus Saccocirrus (esp. Saccocirrus major)

• 昔蜥蜴むかしとかげ

  tuatara (primitive lizardlike reptile endemic to New Zealand)

• 昔蜻蛉むかしとんぼ

  Epiophlebia superstes (species of living-fossil dragonfly endemic to Japan)

• その昔そのむかし

  a long time ago, in those days

• 一昔前ひとむかしまえ

  long ago, previous, of a former age

• 遠い昔とおいむかし

  remote past, far ago, time immemorial

• 遥か昔はるかむかし

  long ago

• 今は昔いまはむかし

  once upon a time, a long time ago

• 姫昔蓬ひめむかしよもぎ

  horseweed (Conyza canadensis), Canadian horseweed, Canadian fleabane, coltstail, marestail, butterweed

• 昔なじみむかしなじみ

  old friend, familiar face

• 昔を想うむかしをおもう

  to recall the old days

• 昔ながらむかしながら

  unchanged (from long ago), as it was in the past, same old, traditional

• とくの昔とくのむかし

  a long time ago, long ago

• とうの昔とうのむかし

  a long time ago, long ago

• 十年一昔じゅうねんひとむかし

  the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history

• 今昔物語こんじゃくものがたり

  Konjaku Monogatarishū (abbr) (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period), The Tale of Konjaku

• 昔懐かしいむかしなつかしい

  reminiscent of the good old times, nostalgia-inducing

• 今昔物語集こんじゃくものがたりしゅう

  Konjaku Monogatarishū (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period), Tales of Times Now Past

• とっくの昔とっくのむかし

  a long, long time ago, very long ago

• 昔を懐かしむむかしをなつかしむ

  to view the past with nostalgia

• 昔取った杵柄むかしとったきねづか

  skill learned in one's former days, using one's experience from the past

• 昔は昔、今は今むかしはむかし、いまはいま

  let bygones be bygones, the past is the past, the present is the present