making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
sightseeing; scout; patrol; watchtower; lookout
caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods
love of; affection for; enthusiast for; being attractive to; being liked by
reviewing stand; box; gallery
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
valley (with a river running through it); gorge; ravine; canyon
stagnation; deposit; sediment; faltering; hesitation; pause
plunge basin; waterfall lake; plunge pool; basin under a waterfall
reed (in a loom); yarn guide
chance; opportunity; machine; aircraft; counter for aircraft; counter for (remaining) lives
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because; as you know
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
for many years; anciently
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
to leave (a mark, trace, etc.); to print; to stamp; (arch.) to be a sign of; (arch.) to be an omen for
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)
copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript
Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
to visit; (arch.) (original meaning) to make a noise
all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of
Chinese classical literature; Chinese classics
rash; eruption (in response to a skin irritant); influence; crazy about; having an affectation concerning all things surrounding something (esp. a language, a culture, etc.)
skillful tanka poet; official in charge of court poetry and music (ritsuryo period); poet
to delight; to give pleasure
Tang period (China; 618-907); Tang era
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver
pointing out; identification
Milky Way; luminous band corresponding to the plane of the galaxy