to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
prosperity; glory; splendour; splendor; majesty; luxury
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
loquat (Eriobotrya japonica); Japanese medlar
entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining; immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering
ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead
thin; slender; fine; unlucky
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
Hachiman (God of War); Hachiman shrine; (arch.) certainly
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
make-up; get-up; disguise; costume
small quantity; little; little while; short distance
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
rate; ratio; proportion; percentage
river; stream; River; the ... river
scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
else; in addition; on top of that; furthermore; further; besides
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
to include in a poem (season word, place name, etc.)
sexual desire; sex drive; lust
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
to understand; to appreciate; to interpret
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
addition; increase; Canada
empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness
crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received
beforehand; in advance; previously
to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)
transformation; variation; metamorphosis; modification; deformation; variety
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages
out of control; out of hand; unmanageable
to writhe (in pain); to be in agony; to be anguished; to be agonized; to be troubled
to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
warp (weaving); longitude; scripture; sutra; trans-
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward