five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes; five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); (fig.) the five periods of the Buddha's teachings
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse
nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)
surging waves; raging billows; turbulent; tempestuous; tumultuous
to rage; to run amok (amuck); to tear around
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)
detour; circumvention; turning movement
wind direction; situation; way things are going; mood; temper
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)
to stand up; to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action; to start; to make the initial charge
tea plantation; tea field
to push aside; to push one's way through
grasshopper; locust (of superfamily Acridoidea)
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
eight (in mekuri karuta); (arch.) third-rank prostitute in the Kyoto red-light districts
poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems
for the time being; at present; (arch.) hindrance
basket; basketball; basket cloth
to carry in one's hand; to have in one's hand; to lead (e.g. troops); to present (an issue, policy, artistic work, etc.); to take up
(I) will; (I) shall; let's; (I) wonder (if); might it be (that); hey
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
politics; government; peace; (arch.) medical treatment; (arch.) cure
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
public opinion; unbiased criticism; unbiassed criticism
thirty-first day of the month; thirty-one days
shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes
airing of clothes, hanging scrolls, etc. (to prevent damage from insects and mould)
library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)
lingering heat (in autumn)
box for holding papers or stationery
to write and throw away; to write carelessly; to begin writing then stop part-way through