waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane
perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot
purificatory font at shrines and temples; kitchen; cupboard; room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed; vendor of drinking water; building for taking refuge during a flood
construction; architecture (of buildings)
often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently
overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora
stone monument bearing an inscription (esp. memorial for future generations); stele; stela
scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
evil influence; (evil) clutches; tentacles of evil
to stimulate; to stir up; to arouse
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
written pledge; signed note of assurance; memorandum; legal instrument
sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly
to dwell; to live; to stay at; to take shelter at; to be pregnant; to be part of a constellation
virgin; innocent young woman
to save face; to keep face; to not lose face
(not) a single person; (no) one
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful
to fall onto; to happen; to befall
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
one's person; around one's person
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life
upstart; parvenu; jumped-up person
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
gold (Au); golden; prosperous; money (esp. ōban coin); cash
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably
slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses