close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
in the meanwhile; during the time
(not) even once; (not) ever
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
difficult to ...; hard to ...
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
to pass from one's lips; to escape one's lips
certain; sure; doubtless; I have no doubt; You can depend on it; It's a safe bet
reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight
madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
to talk; to tell; to recite; to pledge; to conspire with
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings
to wrap up; to pack; to cover; to envelop; to conceal (a feeling); to hide
circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
temporarily; short period; once; one morning
Awaji (former province located on Awaji Island in present-day Hyōgo Prefecture); Awaji (island)
foothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone
to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)
western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon
daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord
robust; brawny; muscular; strong; sturdy
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
without; unless; have to do
ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
yield; crop; production; volume; piecework
to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to
to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate
hair; fur; wool; down; plumage
advantage; benefit; profit; interest