wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)
order; turn; sorting; obedient; docile; submissive
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)
evening; early night hours
consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude
confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
to get into a panic; to be flustered; to panic; to get in a flap
leaving (fleeing) the capital
invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass
Goshirakawahouou (1127.10.18-1192.4.26) (ex-emperor, later monk)
ignorance; covering; concealing; Mongolia
defilement; impurity; object (perceived with the mind or the senses); one billionth
taking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation; escape; seeking safe haven
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
transferral of a sacred object from its place of enshrinement; imperial procession
nursing; nurse; attending; attendant; entertainer
three kinds; three varieties
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
Western Liao (Central Asian Khitan empire, 1132-1211 CE)
ladies' pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace)
to let loose (e.g. a fart); to utter (e.g. a lie); to do
to pattern after; to liken to; to imitate
ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card
Buddhist family chapel; altar room
the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void); five great wisdom kings
women's pavilion (of the inner Heian palace)
gorgeous; gaudy; dazzling; gay; resplendent
household items; furniture; furnishings; (arch.) bow and arrow