tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of; to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle
thoughtless; indiscreet; lacking in common sense; rashness; betraying one's lack of judgment (judgement); absurd
everyday; always; at all times; frequently
to like; to prefer; to be pleased by
proximity; nearness; soon; nearby
censorship; inspection; examination
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon
Bungei Shunju (publisher); Bungei Shunju (magazine)
without; unless; have to do
looks (esp. of a woman); features; ability; capability; (public) estimation (esp. of a man); credit
to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far
large size (paper, book, etc.); ōban; large oval gold coin used in the Edo period
to tailor; to make (clothing); to train; to bring up; to make it seem like; to pass off
divination (based on the Book of Changes)
garden shrubs; trees; potted plant
some; few; somewhat; to a certain extent; (arch.) many; (arch.) a lot
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
unconditionally; as a rule
reluctantly; grudgingly; unwillingly
fourth rank; fourth class; fourth sign of the Chinese calendar; Denmark
government office; agency; board
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
to read (a text) from start to finish; to transliterate classical Chinese into Japanese
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
Genkō era (1321.2.23-1324.12.9)
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
scholarly ability; scholarship; knowledge; literary ability