calmness; composure; presence of mind; stability; steadiness
silence (not speaking); muteness
end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all
bravery; courage; heroism
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
article for sale; goods for sale; offering; specialty; selling point
paper treated with astringent persimmon juice
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
Joseph's-coat (Amaranthus tricolor); tampala
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
parting; separation; farewell
to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)
Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri); katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae); (arch.) cricket
grasshopper; locust (of superfamily Acridoidea)
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)
sleeping during the day; (afternoon) nap; siesta
bathing (swimming) in cold water
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
revolution; rotation; turn; turning; inversion; handspring (gymnastics)
piece (e.g. poetry); poem; essay; book; story
affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders
to resemble each other; to resemble one another
there is a tendency; there is a possibility
all; the whole; on the whole; all in all; generally
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
halfway; midway; partway; mid-course
deadlock; standstill; stalemate; set-back; abeyance
one-by-one; separately; in detail
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
voiceless; unvoiced; silent; noiseless
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
to bend; to warp; to lose heart
by means of; due to; because of; according to
fifth court rank; black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron; five ranks; five stages
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