lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
countryside; country; 50-home township (comprised of 2-3 neighbourhoods)
entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining; immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering
to work out a plan of deception; to scheme; (arch.) to think up a plan; (arch.) to think over a plan; (arch.) to discuss; (arch.) to consult
offensive smell; off-flavor; off-flavour
funds; capital; material; basis; character; qualities
danger; peril; hazard; risk
to contribute; to play a part in; to have a hand in; to finance
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
to grieve; to lament; to deplore; to admire; to sigh in admiration
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
after; post; ex-; after the fact; ex post
Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725)
washing; sashimi chilled in iced water
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)
to arrange (flowers); to plant; living; live
order; ordering; beginning; start; foreword; preface
invisibly; secretly; privately
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
Yamagata (city, prefecture); mountain shape; chevron; cone
Bletilla striata (purple variety of orchid)
cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang
to prosper; to flourish; to thrive; to become popular; to become widespread
to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
to grow; to grow up; to be good at; to excel in
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
god of death; death deity; Death
all things in nature; Creation; the Creator; Maker
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
fervour; fervor; vigour; vigor; ardour; ardor
to be careful; to be discreet; to do in moderation; to refrain (from overdoing); to be reverent; to be purified
lacking substance and existing in name only; something without substance
the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way