stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce
stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce
rousing (courage, morale, etc.); encouragement; advocacy; promotion (of a belief); encouragement
sly; cunning; sneaky; miserly; mean; stingy
one's junior; younger generation; next generation; moving backwards; backing up; reversing
yearning; longing for; deep affection
taste for the exotic; infatuation with a foreign way of life; exoticism
(both) openly and covertly; publicly and privately; implicitly and explicitly
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
ranked list (entertainers, sumo wrestlers, millionaires, etc.); program (e.g. theatre)
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
the emperor's personal inspection
to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of
without authority; without reason; unnecessarily; recklessly; indiscriminately
boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)
misrecognition; mistaking (x for y)
vehicle; horse-drawn carriage
to discuss; to talk about; to argue; to dispute; to take into consideration; to make an issue of
taking into consideration; making allowances
to decrease; to be reduced; to reduce; to lessen; to subtract; to deduct
thirteenth day of the month; thirteen days
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
something to rely on; aid; someone to rely on; relative; reminder; memento
to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await
trial; judgement; judgment
Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
vegetables; (edible) greens; blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)
load; heavy burden; encumbrance; heavy freight; heavy responsibility
to be used to calling (someone by a certain name)
unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away