calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
thorough; exhaustive; complete
calmly; quietly; gently; be quiet!
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang
tediously; repetitively; insistently; ad nauseam; at great length
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
(turning) round and round; in circles; wrapping around; winding around
generous; soft-hearted; having a good personality
drinking habits; drunken behavior; drunken behaviour
to make a distinction; to differ; to be different
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
extremely overbearing wife
district resident; inhabitant of a county
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; name; title
clearly miraculous; remarkably miraculous; striking
return gift; return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction)
expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation
relying entirely on ...; using solely ...; with the sole purpose of ...; based on (mutual consent, etc.)
weather; look of the sky; situation; turn of affairs; signs
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
shutout; shutting out; lock-out; freeze-out
settlement; solution; resolution
to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
one's principal residence; main home
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel
leaving; going home; quitting one's job; free time; leisure
to drag into; to pull into; to lure inside; to win over; to entice into
to shoot or fire off an arrow
circumference; girth; tour; pilgrimage; circulation (e.g. of blood)
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
with a friendly grin; smilingly
thick growth of plants; plantation; shrubbery; thicket
garden pond; miniature lake; fountain
wisteria trellis; wisteria arbor (arbour); wisteria pergola
praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis)