tea container (usually for thick tea used at the tea ceremony)
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
lately; recently; nowadays
Tang dynasty (of China; 618-907); T'ang dynasty; (arch.) China; (arch.) foreign country
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
every place; various places
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district
the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest
way (of doing); manner; method; means
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
conscious; deliberate; intentional
planning; scheming; maneuvering; manoeuvring
ceramics; pottery; porcelain
as (for); for; in the capacity of
tugboat; tug; towboat; tugging (a boat); towing; towage
essence; quintessence; spirit; soul; heart; pith
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
excelling; surpassing; outdoing
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
aim; goal; prospect; outlook
tearoom; tea house; tea-ceremony room; tea arbour; tea arbor
strange; rare; novel; curious
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
probe; inquiry; enquiry; investigation
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process
dyeing; staining; dyed colour (color)
Ryukyu; chain of southwestern Japanese islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture