half-sitting posture; half-standing posture; half-rising posture; stooping position
sanity; consciousness; soberness
affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
experience; being accustomed (to something); poise in a critical situation
Satori; folklore monster that can read minds
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
losing initiative; being forestalled; second move (in go or shogi); moving second; rear guard
in tufts; tufty; bushy; thick; luxuriant
type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process
long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono; under-kimono
traditional married woman's hair style with an oval chignon on top; men's hairstyle (Edo period)
sidelocks; hair at the temples
to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone
to hang one's head; to droop one's head
joint together; opposite; facing
very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just
to tuck up (e.g. skirt); to abridge; to cut short
densely covered in thick hair; hairy; fuzzy
exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; to beat fast (of one's heart); to throb; to pound
container made by cutting a piece of bamboo lengthways; bamboo tube; bamboo cylinder
to illuminate; to shine a light on; to light up
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
household items; furniture; furnishings; (arch.) bow and arrow
to consider (all the circumstances); to bear (a number of things) in mind
(sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball)
suddenly; all of a sudden
ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; something strange or suspicious; idiot; fool; noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters
foxes and tanuki; sly fellow; deceiver
muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
robber; mugger; robbery; burglary
to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain
short sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters