to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
concluding festivities; concluding program; concluding programme; final day of a tournament
to continue to hold; to hold on to (for a long period); to maintain; to keep
chief; main; principal; major
lingering (usu. feeling, emotion, etc.); continuing (to); still (...)
to use up (all one's strength, ideas, etc.); to exert oneself; to do one's best
to blossom; to flower; to bloom
hey; hello; wow; oh; oomph; heave-ho
sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
drunkenness; intoxication; motion sickness; travel sickness
blizzard of falling cherry blossoms; flurry of falling cherry blossoms
eternalness; forever unchanging; distant land over the sea; world of the dead
flashiness; showiness; brilliance; bloom; flowers
intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)
to be in full bloom; to blossom in full glory; to be in fullness of bloom
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
(one) leaf; (one) petal; piece (of paper); flake (of snow)
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
dawn; daybreak; event (e.g. "in the event of ..."); occasion; occurrence
with a momentary flash of light
with a snap; (break) cleanly; (reject) sternly; flatly; smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)
to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say
encouragement; inspiration; rousing; stirring up; raising (e.g. morale)
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
restlessly; nervously; uneasily; in a fidget
nothing but; none other than
to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of
crisply; with a crunch; refreshingly; sharply; candidly; frankly
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom
setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4), day of the bean scattering ceremony; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
sowing beans (or pulses, etc.); scattering parched beans (to drive out evil spirits)
exorcism; ceremonial cleansing from evil influence
legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small