kindness; favor; favour; goodwill; affection; liking (for someone)
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
model; standard; pattern; norm; criterion; example
15th day of the month; 15 days
evening; early night hours
to speak; to say; to vocalize
good or bad luck; fortune
prediction; prophecy; prognostication; (religious) prophecy
criticism; judgement; judgment; comment
Okayama (city, prefecture)
outside the city; suburbs
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
to beg; to ask; to request; to pray; to wish
to shut; to close; to block (a street, entrance, etc.); to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to consume (with negative feelings)
earnestly; repeatedly; patiently
taste; liking; preference
to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
being enraged (indignant, impatient); gnashing the teeth and clenching the arms on the breast (in anger or regret)
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
island in a pond or river
small; fine; detailed; stingy
description; account; delineation; (a) predicative; predication
to afflict; to torment; to harass; to molest
to put effort into; to strain; to put strength into; to put forth effort
party; set; gang; company; person
audience; attendance; hearers
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
dream; dream; hope; unrealistic aspiration; daydream; delusion
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
each time; frequently; always
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
sick person; patient; invalid
possession by a fox spirit; person possessed by a fox spirit
how much; how many; however (much); no matter how; what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...
foolish man; (one's) husband