poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
to be infected; to be contagious
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like
dialogue; discussion; conversation; interaction
taking care of one's health; recuperation; covering (with a protective material); coating; curing (concrete)
native Japanese reading of a Chinese character; precept; lesson; one's teachings
heeding; paying attention; bearing in mind
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
degeneration; decadence; deterioration; laxness; corruption
to closely resemble; to suit well; to match well; to go well with
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
to take off (clothes, shoes, etc.); to undress
ordinary person; average person; mediocre person
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality; (lit.) naked emperor
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front; wrong way round
to divulge one's true feelings; to open one's heart
question to be settled first; first consideration
color-blindness; colour-blindness
cave-in; collapse; sinking; depression (e.g. of the skull); subsidence
sparkle of one's eyes; insight; discernment; penetration
feudal era; feudal times; feudal period; feudal age; age of feudalism
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
feudalistic thought or thinking
cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
foot of a mountain; base of a mountain; mine; colliery; owner of a mountain; operator of a mine
bearing no comparison with; not to be mentioned in the same breath as
Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)
false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym
to tickle; to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.); to arouse; to make laugh; to amuse
double; two-fold; diplo-; dipl-; double-edged eyelid; double eyelid
retrogression; degeneration; deterioration
hard worker; hardworking person
lazy person; lazy fellow; slothful person
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to