localized (pain, rainfall, etc.); local
swirling current; eddy; whirlpool; eddy current
(of plants) growing in clusters; growing gregariously
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
to show up; to appear; to turn up
twenty-second day of the month; twenty-two days
edge; angle; ridge (e.g. of a mountain)
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
pink (colour, color); (lit.) colour of peach (flowers)
address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word
popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
exalting; raising; enhancing; rousing up
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
often; frequently; lightly (of a movement); easily; simply
right hand; right-hand side; right-hand direction; (on) the right
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
to like; to love; to be fond of
danger; peril; hazard; risk
memory; sense; experience
and; thereupon; because of that
harvest moon (trad. 15th day of the 8th lunar month)
wind blowing down, coming over a mountain; immediately after one's draw; winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left
so-so; passable; now, now; my, my
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
with a click (door sound); with tenseness or firmness
to offer (a suggestion, etc.); to propose (an idea, etc.); to approach with (a proposal, etc.)
goodbye; so long; saying goodbye to (e.g. life as a bachelor); putting an end to; farewell (performance, party, etc.); final
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
soot on the bottom of a pot or pan
transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself; artificial fly (for fishing)
to feel sick; to be nauseated