performance (at a party or banquet, etc.); side show; entertainment
flattery; cajolery; flirtation
presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.); outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); My Lord; My Lady
wind and string instruments; music
banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit)
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
light; faint; pale; fleeting
to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)
suddenly; all of a sudden
chair; stool; post; office; position
transverse flute (e.g. a fife)
tune (melody, piece of music)
flute; fife; pipe; whistle
to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided
interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
The Five Classics (of Confucianism)
loud laughter; hearty laugh
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
Imperial countenance; face of the Emperor
pale; pallid; bluish-white
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
please; somehow or other; one way or another
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
reviewing stand; box; gallery
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
to lay down; to wear (a sword, etc.) at one's side
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
it is assuredly (that)...; can say with confidence that it is...
change; changing; vicissitudes; fading; waning
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
sect; denomination; tenets (of a religious sect)
seeing one off; farewell; escort
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly