normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
principal offence; principal offense; principal offender
behavior; behaviour; conduct; entertainment; treat; feast
gargling; rinsing one's mouth
ancestor worshipped as a deity
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
width; breadth; freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude; gap; difference (e.g. in price)
unskillful; childish; immature; naive; artless; clumsy
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
obstinate; stubborn; obdurate; headstrong; willful; perverse
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
one's own handwriting; autograph; holograph
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
year by year; annually; every year; from year to year
Ashikaga shogunate (i.e. the Muromachi shogunate, 1336-1573)
three generations; three periods; third generation
politics; government; peace; (arch.) medical treatment; (arch.) cure
merits and demerits; good points and bad points; strengths and weaknesses
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture
oral instruction or teaching or method
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa); empress tree; foxglove tree
crafty; tricky; sly; sinister (look)
bowstring; string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.); bail (arched pot handle); diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
book of registration; text of a play
copying and transmitting a text
mention (in a document); record; entry; statement; listing
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
few decades; many decades; several decades
to neglect; to ignore; to slight; to be indifferent to
light and darkness; light and shade
depiction; description; portrayal
one end; an end; part; fragment