weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)
supplication; appeal; entreaty; petition
trial; judgement; judgment
inflection; conjugation; declension
entreaty; imploring; begging; spoken portion of a song; oral recitation
reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; retrogradation; retrogression
to persuade; to coax; to solicit; to seduce; to make advances; to make a play
to break into song; to burst into song; to begin singing
Shinkichi Hashimoto (linguist) (1882-1945)
to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone
Japanese andromeda (Pieris japonica); lily-of-the-valley
worry; agony; vexation; illness; sickness
every evening; night after night
to scrape off; to shave off
dramatization; dramatisation
magistrate; shogunate administrator
Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight)
social conditions; social circumstances
farewell gift; parting gift; viaticum
farewell; be that so; in that case; (arch.) however; (arch.) though that may be the case
ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
waterfowl; water bird; shorebird
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
alms-giving; charity; offerings (usu. money) to a priest (for reading sutras, etc.)