perfect; complete; flawless
having vague fears; feeling alarmed; feeling gloomy (about the future); feeling apprehension
to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say
seedling; young plant; rice seedling
prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum
fiery chariot (which carries the souls of sinners into hell); desperate financial situation; dire straits
cloistered emperor; ex-emperor who has become a monk
government service; official position; civil service
travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara and Heian-period position)
one by one; one after another; successively
misdeed; wrongdoing; wickedness
supporter (e.g. of the arts); adherent; proponent
old or veteran army general
to begin to appear; to begin to come in
to run out (e.g. of the room)
choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
to speak; to talk; to mediate; to act as a go-between; to put in a good word (for someone)
runny nose; (watery) nasal mucus
mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
cooperation; collaboration
postwar period; period after Second World War
to that extent; to that degree; so much; so
every place; various places
comfort; consolation; diversion