song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
children's song; nursery song
(period of) a year; during an era
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
thirteen; 13; king (playing card)
decision; determination; resolution
greens; vegetables; rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed
finally; at last; ultimately; in the end
coiled dragon; dragon coiled on the earth, which has not yet ascended to the sky
influx of South Korean pop culture (into Japan)
to judge; to decide; to solve; to decipher; to divine; to guess
to come to (in the end); to end in; to attribute; to blame
looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia
self-consciousness; self-awareness
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation
genius; brilliance; unusual talent; gifted person; person of unusual talent
Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)
opportunity; chance; good time (to do); trend; tendency; momentum
great deed; great enterprise; great work; massive undertaking
unrecognized genius; exceptional person hidden among the masses; reclining dragon
drawn dragon; painted dragon
gifted young person who shows much promise
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
in spite of; regardless of
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
simple; plain; modest; frugal; reserved
food and (alcoholic) drink
tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; bunch (of grapes, bananas, etc.); cluster (of flowers); segment (of a tangerine, etc.); section
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
silence; stillness; quietness
silence; stillness; quietness
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows