10-point card; tane; animal card
match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
city girl; fashionable girl
cloud flying through the sky
Honganji sect (of Shin Buddhism)
kneaded eraser; putty rubber
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
Treaty of Portsmouth (ending the Russo-Japanese War, 1905)
sudden change; complete change
source; beginning; origin
the five 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)
to sit silently at a meeting
becoming part of the standard inventory (of a product); becoming popular
king (of the junior player)
batting practice facility; batting practice center; batting cage
first year of elementary school; first year elementary school student
Nishi Hongan-ji (temple in Kyoto)
professional woman go player
staying at home during the New Year's holiday
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School
mausoleum; imperial court
(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil
to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; (lit.) to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple
balance ball; exercise ball; Swiss ball
traditional (Chinese or Japanese) dry landscape garden