to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
deed; act; work; performance
Chinese poem; Chinese poetry
Niigata (city, prefecture)
ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy
somehow; without knowing (it); unconsciously; unthinkingly
meditation; contemplation
liberation from earthly desires and the woes of man; deliverance of one's soul; moksha; mukti; vimukti
depending on the situation; should time and circumstances permit
department; section; course (of study); branch of study; (taxonomical) family
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
to change completely; to change suddenly
to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.
being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to
strength; intensity; strong (e.g. glasses); powerful (e.g. lens); intense (e.g. fear)
neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)
to contract (a disease); to suffer from
embellishment (e.g. of a story); ornamentation; decoration; (arch.) putting on makeup
dead language; extinct language; obsolete word; word that has become passé
French (language, people)
coincident with; while; simultaneously
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype
conscious; deliberate; intentional
sake brewery; wine cellar; bar; bar-room
open-hearted; free and easy; frank; not being bothered by unimportant things
fragile; brittle; delicate; sensitive
to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect
tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable
ambiguous; obscure; equivocal
melancholy; gloom; depression
sticking (in one place, position, etc.); settling; becoming established (of a custom, system, etc.); taking hold; fixation (photography); fixing
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person