son of a distinguished family; son of a noble
Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)
fold; pleat; folds (e.g. of a mountain); crease; (hidden) detail; nuance
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech; (arch.) divining good or bad luck from listening to someone
to be infected; to be contagious
to the best of my ability, poor though it be
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
cannot understand; doesn't make sense; unconvincing; hard to swallow; doesn't ring true
not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
highly ridiculous; quite absurd
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
one's own convenience; one's way; surroundings; environment; convenience; ease of use; financial circumstances
which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon
foolish thing; stupid thing; absurdity
truth; reality; seriousness; logical truth; printed style writing; star performer
irritating; aggravating; upsetting
unusual; uncommon; extraordinary; out of the ordinary; incomparable; serious
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)
form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
line (of text); row; carya (austerities); samskara (formations); semi-cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); running style
winding; meandering; zigzagging; zig-zag; in twists and turns; sinuously
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
firelight; shadows or forms moving in firelight
moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that
to throw (oneself); to hurl; to cast; to stir (one's feelings); to get excited; to make (one's heart) pound
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity); great runner
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry
runaway horse; galloping horse
home (of something); place famous for its ...; place of origin; birthplace; morning session; last session in the morning
young nobleman; scion of a noble family; princely young man; man with an aristocratic air
above ground; on the ground; earth's surface; this world; this earth
star (usu. not including the Sun); planet (usu. not including Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); star (actor, player, etc.); small dot; spot; star point (in go)
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
precious stone (esp. jade); egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping); stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold; position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); geisha; time charge for a geisha