breathing; respiration; knack; trick; harmony; balance
to understand; to appreciate; to interpret
desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager
older brother and younger sister
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
denouncing; calling (e.g. somebody a thief); branding (as)
bold; audacious; impudent; unashamed; unabashed
relation; relationship; participation; involvement; influence; effect
observation; survey; watching
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)
to spread; to be propagated
spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
ahead; further on; beyond (this place); before this; prior to this; earlier
arms and cavalry; troops; war; military affairs
unseasonable weather; fickle weather; bad weather
porcupine (any mammal of suborder Hystricomorpha)
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate
to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon
in accordance with; according to
loitering on the way; wayside grass
to stop by; to drop in for a short visit
board; plank; sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); cutting board; chopping board
hut; shanty; hovel; house built directly into the ground with no supporting stones
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
tenth day of the month; ten days
twentieth day of the month; twenty days
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m); counter used to number the gaps between pillars
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
cannot be compared with; no match for
wicker trunk; wicker luggage