木綿以前の事 – Vocabulary list

幻まぼろし

phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item

2

余よ韻いん

reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); lingering memory; aftertaste; suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.)

2

十じゅう七しち

17; seventeen

2

鮮あざやか

vivid; bright; brilliant; skillful; skilful; adept

3

範はん囲い

extent; scope; sphere; range; span

4

仕し事ごと唄うた

work song

1

とうた

weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)

1

創そう造ぞう

creation; Creation (by God)

1

手て際ぎわ

performance; execution; skill; dexterity; tact

1

物もの静しずか

quiet; still; calm

2

ひちゅう

in secret

1

定てい義ぎ

definition

3

に準じゅんじて

in proportion (to)

1

大たい言げん壮そう語ご

big talk; boasting; bragging

1

まわし

mawashi; belt; mantle; cape; gang rape

2

持もち寄よる

to gather (bringing something); to gather (to exchange something)

1

メロディ

melody; chime

2

心こころから

from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely

1

悲ひ喜き

joys and sorrows

2

哄こう笑しょう

loud laughter

1

純じゅん一いつ

purity; homogeneity; unadorned

1

余よ年ねん

one's remaining years

1

雲うん霧む

clouds and fog

1

謎なぞ

riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious

2

楽がく屋や

dressing room; green room; backstage; behind the scenes; the inside; inside affairs

1

がく

jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)

1

表ひょう現げん法ほう

expression method; how to express oneself; phrasing

2

主しゅ

(one's) master; Lord; the main thing; the majority

1

消きえ去さる

to disappear; to vanish

1

しば

brushwood; firewood

1

相あい通つうずる

to be in common; to have in common; to be in mutually understood; to be mutually connected; to have a link

1

幾いく代よ

generations; ages; years

1

風ふう俗ぞく

manners; customs; sex service; sex industry; sex-oriented entertainment

2

つら

face; mug; surface; cheek meat; (arch.) cheek; (arch.) cheeks

2

不ふ自し然ぜん

unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

1

味あじのある

interesting (personality, turn of phrase, etc.); pleasantly different; tasteful; attractive; charming

1

見み直なおす

to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve

1

不ふ可か解かい

incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling

4

それる

to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray

1

敬けいする

to respect

1

遠とおざける

to keep away; to keep at a distance

1

さしも

to that extent; so (much)

2

断だん片ぺん

fragment; scrap; piece; shred

2

忘ぼう却きゃく

lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion

1

封ふうじる

to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block

1

籠こめる

to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud

1

陰いんに陽ように

(both) openly and covertly; publicly and privately; implicitly and explicitly

1

血けつ縁えん

blood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative

2

恩おん愛あい

kindness and affection; love

1

間けん

ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m); counter used to number the gaps between pillars

1

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Vocabulary list: 木綿以前の事