lick; bottom card of the draw pile; (arch.) tasting (a nobleman's) medicine to see if it contains poison; (arch.) medicine taster
to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
flute; fife; pipe; whistle
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
livestock; domestic animals
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
non-stop talking; speaking indiscreetly; chattering; thin; flimsy
eight (long cylindrical things)
to slip into (a place) for the purposes of having sex (e.g. a lover's house, hotel, red light district); to shack up with; to shut oneself away at home (due to lack of money)
a person of high morals; a Taoist
tone of voice; mimicry; imitative voice
(together) with; -wide; including
to lean coquettishly against; to snuggle into; to nestle into
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
to bend; to warp; to yield; to be supple (e.g. bamboo, body); to be flexible; to be pliant
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
picture of Hell; painting representing Hell
Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land); paradise; heaven on earth
paradise; heaven; Kingdom of Heaven
transformation; abnormality; sexual perversion; pervert; metamorphosis; transformation
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
admission fee; fee for having one's fortune told
mistake; blunder; bungle; mistakenly announcing a win without having all the requisite tiles
heh heh heh; tee-hee; giggle
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
group engaged in some activity (players, companies, forces, etc.)
to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.); (arch.) to abide by; (arch.) to agree to
finally; at last; ultimately; in the end
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
seat; bench; temporary job while looking for a better job or until one marries
Gasterosteus microcephalus (species of stickleback)
Japanese halfbeak (Hemiramphus sajori); stickleback
blood clam (Scapharca broughtonii); ark shell
representative; exemplary; model
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)