kanji "fish" radical at left
your honor (honour); his (or her) honor (honour)
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644); Ming (typeface); Minchō
returning to the origin; going back to the beginning; retracing
Kyoto dialect; Kyoto accent
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
to try all possible means
the shogunate (administration)
early evening cloud; clouds at sunset
to wrestle with; to contest an issue; to take part in sumo
love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland
to go to; to visit; to call on
sweetness and saltiness; salted and sweetened taste
going out (of a nobleman, etc.); visiting
merit; virtuous deed; divine reward (for virtuous deeds); grace (of the buddhas and gods); merit; meritum
to be understood; to be comprehended; to be grasped; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame
farewell poem; death poem; poem written during one's final moments
to split; to be split; to splinter
Ardisia crenata; coralberry
one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
extremely rude (impertinent, impolite)
to be like-minded; to have the same goal
to complain about; to grumble; to make an excuse for
intimacy; familiarity; closeness
dropping; unloading; grated vegetables, fruit, etc.; grater; using new tools (or clothes, etc.); new tools (or clothes, etc.)
like water; like it grows on trees
begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit
suicide by drowning; drowning oneself; entering the water; hitting the water
(not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least; (not) in the slightest