strange; mysterious; queer
amphiaster; diaster; double star; visual double
ending; conclusion; join; union; knot; knotting
Onbashira Festival; log-dragging festival held once every six years in Suwa, Nagano
to hate each other; to hate mutually
replacement; substitution; rebuilding; changing
kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour
red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each
nothing but; nothing more than; nothing less than
egoistic; self-centered; selfish
(person with) no sense of direction; poor sense of locality
diviner; sorcerer; exorcist; medium
charm; talisman; tally; sign; mark; fu
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out
rampancy; prevalence; domination
to be greatly obliged; to be very sorry
grave; solemn; stern; authoritative; hard (e.g. fact)
credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
open seam; seam that has come apart; tear
disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
to extend; to expand; to spread out
useless resistance; vain struggle
fragment; one of the group or party
after having come this far; now that we've come this far
at first; in the beginning; originally
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
memento (esp. of a deceased person); keepsake; heirloom; remembrance; souvenir
goddamn idiot; moron; nitwit
boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless
to paw (at) the ground; to struggle (using one's arms and legs); to flounder; to struggle (to escape an adverse situation); to strive
chain; chaining; connection; (genetic) linkage
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
to be sullen; to be offended; to be huffy; to be stuffy; to be stifling; to be muggy
to realize; to realise; to hit upon something
spell; curse; dharani; mantra
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)
to join forces; to cooperate
accumulation; accumulate; store