yatsuhashi; cinnamon-seasoned rice flour cracknel (local delicacy in Kyoto); zigzag bridge
heap; pile; stack; full measure
wherein; therein; thereinto
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like
subordinate work; assistant; servant
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
waiting woman in a shogun or daimyo's palace
Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)
soft; tender; limp; subdued (colour or light) (color); gentle; meek
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
mentality; mood; sentiment; fretfulness; tedium; irritation
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach
to tilt (esp. head); to lean; to incline; to slant
to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard); to work someone hard; to masturbate
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
(giving) birth; childbirth; delivery; confinement
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to lose heart; to lose interest; to lose motivation; to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose flavor
main door at the front of a house; front shutters
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist
easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.); easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
together; at the same time; same; identical
feeling; sense; impression
pillow with a box-shaped wooden base
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)
leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row
long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono; under-kimono
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make