brocade; fine dress; fine clothes
pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love
moonless sky (poetic usage)
cunning and wickedness; cunning and wicked person
nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
vacant house; unoccupied house
just now; right now; at this moment
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
uneven; irregular; non-uniform; unsorted; odd; miscellaneous
unevenness; roughness; ruggedness; inequality; imbalance; unevenness
widely; extensively; far and wide; everywhere; all around; generally
holding out for a short while; putting up resistance for a while; briefly holding one's own
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
sphere; circle; range; category
to lose weight; to become thin; to wither away
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end
to hold; to carry; to embrace (in one's arms)
running through (north-south); cutting across; travelling across; cutting vertically; sectioning longitudinally
to be bulky; to be unwieldy; to grow voluminous
to shake; to tremble; to sway; to be unsettled; to be unstable; to fluctuate
abuse; ill-treatment; maltreatment; mistreatment; cruelty
sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death
boy; son; baby boy; young man
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
face; mug; surface; cheek meat; (arch.) cheek; (arch.) cheeks
porcelain (esp. hard-paste porcelain); china; chinaware
uncertain; doubtful; unreliable; unsteady; unclear; vague
to illuminate; to shine a light on; to light up
pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari
boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn
to fret; to be fretful; to be peevish
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes; free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music
to be dented; to be indented; to be beaten; to be overwhelmed; to be disheartened; to feel down