originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible
flattery; cajolery; flirtation
to seem to be ...; to become like ...; to behave as ...
grinding miso; flattery; flatterer; monk
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
(political) power; authority; influence
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
self publicity; advertising oneself
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
thunderous; rumbling; thunderously; rumblingly
element (esp. component in electronics); elemental device; device; data; datum
audacity; forwardness; effrontery; impertinence
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
Enryaku era (782.8.19-806.5.18)
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
abbreviated form of a Chinese character; simplified character; acronym; abbreviation
temple built at the order of the emperor
dropping out of school; withdrawing from school; expulsion from school; dismissal; leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
fervour; fervor; vigour; vigor; ardour; ardor
residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle
unrest prevailing; turmoil reigning
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)
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
another time; again; over again; formally; especially; intentionally
amendment; correction; revision; modification; alteration; retouching
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
seine fishing; seining; seine; seine net
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences); ground-breaking ceremony
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
founding a temple (on a hill-top)
limitless; apolar; limitlessness of taiji
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
alms-giver; person who donates to a monk or a temple; dana-pati
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
thousands; several thousand
to line up with; to be a member of; to rank with; to attend; to take part in