child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to drill; to bore; to hit the mark; to get to the heart of (the matter); (arch.) to put on; (arch.) to wear
erratic; offbeat; wild; extraordinary
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
river; stream; River; the ... river
moment by moment; hour by hour
man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
valley; ravine; glen; gorge
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
Shimōsa (former province located in parts of present-day Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama and Tokyo prefectures)
stinging hair (of a nettle, caterpillar, etc.)
kudzu (Pueraria montana); Japanese arrowroot; Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted
building (physical structure) of a kindergarten, preschool, etc.
dark; gloomy; overcast; heavy; leaden; dull
black with hints of blue (as in a bruise); bluish black
middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
to whirl; to eddy; to be all jumbled together (feelings, thoughts, etc.); to surge; to sweep
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
throwing oneself (e.g. into the water to commit suicide)
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
to have meaning; to be meaningful
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back