natural phenomenon (phenomena)
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
to be dampened (of the mood, interest, etc.); to be spoiled (e.g. of the atmosphere); to become subdued; to turn white; to fade (to white); to grow light (at dawn)
one's junior; younger generation; next generation; moving backwards; backing up; reversing
to paw (at) the ground; to struggle (using one's arms and legs); to flounder; to struggle (to escape an adverse situation); to strive
Izumi Shikibu (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)
to sniff out; to get wind of
unaware; unmindful; unconscious; blind; apathetic
new word; neologism; word of recent origin; recent word; modern term
localized (pain, rainfall, etc.); local
man of virtue; wise man; person of high rank; the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
to bend; to warp; to lose heart
autumn breeze; fall breeze
ranger (forest); mountain guardian
collected waka poems (of a single poet)
raft; forearm protector; skewered baby-eel kabayaki
forerunner; precursor; pioneer; outrider; outriding
Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)
old name for a cave cricket; even though; despite; even more
(entering into) nirvana; died; silent; tranquil
worldly affairs; public affairs
flute mouthpiece; poetic style
warp; curvature; curve; arch
discrimination; historical school of poetic thought; attachment; distractions
basis; based on; conformance; conformity; authority (of); standard
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
poetic style typical of Man'yōshū
sight; attraction; spectacle; something worth seeing
good or bad; right or wrong; for better or for worse; rightly or wrongly
head of a martial arts organization (organisation)
producing (people) in great numbers; appearing one after the other