reception room; parlor; parlour
sponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's auspices); promotion; organizing; organising; hosting; staging
exhibiting; showing; putting on display; putting up for sale; entering (a work into a competition); submitting
treasure; treasured item; prized possession
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
understanding person; supporter
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
joke; pun; jest; smartly dressed; stylish; fashion-conscious
antipathy; antagonism; animosity; revulsion; ill feeling
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
island in a pond or river
to happen to hear; to overhear
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
(sudden) evening shower (rain)
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
to spoil; to rot; to corrode
first 17-syllable verse of a renga; haiku; first five-syllable line of a tanka
immediately; right away; on the spot
man of virtue; wise man; person of high rank; the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
memorization; memorisation; learning by heart
close; intimate; on good terms
jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
reins; bridle; control; the reins (on)
Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)
occurring naturally (without human influence)
to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone
stilts (for walking); hobby horse
season (in nature, sports, etc.); seasonal word or phrase (in haiku); year
to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly; to express (e.g. emotion in poetry); to read (extra meaning) into (something); to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system)
Japanese and Chinese poetry; poetry; poems
fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)