smart; clever; agile; nimble; quick
wood chip; splinter; thin shingles
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste
sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
refrigerator; cold; cool; cold sake
cold water; cold sake; cold; cool
rich in ...; high in ...; full of ...; very ...; quite ...
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
loose (of clothing); baggy; flabby; saggy; sloshing; slopping
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
relation; relationship; participation; involvement; influence; effect
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
(geisha) teahouse; establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha
to sigh; to breathe a sigh
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly
water and sky; Varuna; Vedic god of water and sky (adopted into Buddhism as god of water and protector of the west)
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.); cutting a fish into two boneless fillets and a piece with the skeleton
bottle; jar; decanter; flagon; phial; vial
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
one sen; one-hundredth of a yen; small amount of money
even if not; even without
exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things
chicken or fish meatloaf made with egg
seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that
to keep an eye on; to keep a watchful eye on
to speak; to talk; to mediate; to act as a go-between; to put in a good word (for someone)
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously