talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print
elephant (Elephantidae spp.)
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
national character; regional character
aesthetic sense; sense of beauty; eye for the beautiful
choice; selection; option
prizing; valuing highly; esteeming
blindness; blind (e.g. love, faith); reckless
shameful; disgraceful; unsightly; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
(not) at all; completely; utterly; very; extremely
to trouble; to bother; to annoy; to give trouble
focus; focal point; focus (of attention, a discussion, etc.); point at issue; focus
to be reflected (in); to be mirrored (in); to impress (a person)
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
prisoner (of war); POW; captive
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
means; way; method; measure
outer canthus; outer corner of the eye
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
to think of; to come up with
individual; distinctive; unique; characteristic; personal; idiosyncratic
to change; to shift; to come and go
to despair of; to see the vanity of
communality; community; having something in common
to knit (one's eyebrows); to furrow; to contract
all; everything; entirety; absolutely (not); (not) at all; (none) whatsoever
disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss
pending; undecided; unconvicted; awaiting judgement
other than; excluding; without
distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve
at the mercy of (e.g. the waves); with (e.g. the wind)
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to stretch larger; to enlarge (photos); to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)
one round; one turn; one size (larger or smaller); one cycle of the twelve years of the Chinese zodiac