layer of clay; clay stratum
stone embankment; stone levee
corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)
three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
hollow; low ground; basin; pit; dip; depression
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
thick; dense; rich (as in taste or content); crowded
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
to point upward; to look upward; to improve
to hang one's head; to droop one's head
desperation; struggle to the death
to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily
one thin flat object; one sheet
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held); Buddhist services during the equinoctial week; nirvana
indescribable; inexpressible
to dribble; to drip; to drop
landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land
edge; brink; verge; time; moment of
running aground; being stranded; grounding; beaching
to leave nothing undone; to do all in one's might; to do everything possible
to take a breath; to take a short rest
to change the position of
fast (walking); quick; brisk; quick (passing of time); rapid; swift
to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire
narrowness; being cramped; being almost full
to close (of flowers); to shut; to get narrower
side (of something, or taking someone's side); part; (watch) case
to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos