to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set
fortune-telling; divination
gods and men; godlike person; person as powerful as a god; (arch.) low-ranking Shinto priest
measure; step; dealing with; medical treatment
judicial decision; judgement; judgment; sentence; decree
frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
to soften; to moderate; to relieve
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
sum; harmony; peace; Japan; Japanese-style
to become inverted; to become reversed
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
(arch.) wild boar; infant wild boar; pig
badness; evilness; bad; evil
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
germination; pregnancy; arising (in); resulting (from); originating (in)
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
to mix with; to be mixed; to be mingled
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
valuable; worthwhile; worthy; worth doing
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
surplus-; excess-; over-; per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
area; domain; territory; field; range; region
to be fickle; to be frivolous; to be flippant; to be flighty; to be giddy; to be restless
sincere; honest; faithful
energy; military strength
different opinion; objection
Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)
to straddle; to sit astride; to mount; to extend over; to spread over; to span
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis
one's attitude; state of affairs