sigh (of grief, disappointment, etc.); grieving; lamenting; deploring
false; pseudo-; quasi-; would-be; sham; pretended
false; pseudo-; quasi-; would-be; sham; pretended
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
recitation (of a poem); chanting; singing; composition (of a poem); composed poem
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
to be anxious or concerned about; to ponder (anxiously); to fear; to investigate; to consider; to plan
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
spinal fluid; gray matter; grey matter
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise
karma; result of one's karma; fate; uncontrollable temper
being very busy; busyness
excelling; surpassing; outdoing
posterity; future life; life to come
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
famous saying; noted haiku
neglect; negligence; disregard; making light of
deplorable; alarming; grievous; lamentable
sexing (of chickens, silkworms, etc.)
to turn one's thoughts to; to pay attention to; to give heed to
remote past; far ago; time immemorial
Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo)
Takarai Kikaku (1661-1707)
planning; project; plan; design
recitation; reciting from memory
reef; sunken rock; unforeseen difficulty
which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
-clad; in the midst of; tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price); times (i.e. multiplied by); able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.)
civilized world; civilised world
destiny of the world; course of events in the world
10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication