penalty; sentence; punishment
scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
(arch.) Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); counter for objects with stretched strings (i.e. bows, kotos), curtains, papers, etc.
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
auscultation; listening to a person's chest with a stethoscope
law; ban; prohibition; ordinance
highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master
native Japanese reading of a Chinese character; precept; lesson; one's teachings
koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); (arch.) stringed instrument
to play (a stringed instrument)
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
uncommon; rare; extraordinary; matchless
(arch.) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); foreigner; barbarian
bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased
phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
harm; evil; poison; blight; harmful influence
obstinate; stubborn; mulish; die-hard; bigoted
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
attempt; trial; experiment; endeavour (endeavor); effort; venture
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
(please) look; see; (please) try to do
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
to study; to complete (a course); to fix; to correct; to conduct (a Buddhist service)
(making a) lesson (of); (setting an) example; warning
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)