arm; ability; skill; (physical) strength
reader (person); person who reads the cards (in karuta games); composer (of a poem)
writer; painter; drawer; skilful writer; skilful painter
hearer; listener; audience; interviewer; questioner
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to produce
well, ...; right, ...; so; then; that way (would mean ...); if that is the case
Buddhist law; Buddhist teaching
Sutra of Immeasurable Life
ambition; the Buddha's great vow (to save all people)
to say; to be pleased to say
obstinacy; atman; the self; the ego
equipment; installation; facilities; arrangements
all over the country; everywhere in the country; throughout the nation
earth and heaven; human and heavenly beings
difference; diversity; irregularity; disorder
taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix
now that; since; so long as; because
lecher; nymphomaniac; dilettante
ugliness; shame; disgrace
very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best
one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit
beauty or ugliness; personal appearance; looks
pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
innateness; innate feature (or character, etc.)
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
life and death; life or death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
quiet; stillness; tranquility; enlightenment; nirvana
all things are essentially nothingness; all things come from nothingness; originally, there was nothing; Zen reminder to free oneself from attachments
minister (of a government department)
reality; real state of affairs; true state of affairs; true form of all things as they are; ultimate reality
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
to throw oneself (e.g. off a cliff, etc.)
versus; against; to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180); toward ...; to ...; equal footing
address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word
high and low; rise and fall
distance; perspective; far and near; here and there
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely