stranger; person from abroad
relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly
to have a talk; to tell a story
simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated
to cover with paint; to hide with paint or make-up
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life
open-minded; receptive; free from preconceived ideas
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit
classical elegance; antiquity
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal
trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)
heartrending; pitiful; saddening; pathetic; heart-breaking
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject
Zhou dynasty (China, approx. 1046-256 BCE); Chou dynasty; perimeter; counter for laps or circuits
Book of the Dead (ancient Egypt)
emperor; ruler (with a heavenly mandate); heavenly being; celestial being
purification; refining; simplification
to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew
unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; death (usu. of a relative); bereavement
to talk about indecent things
excreta; raw sewage; human waste; night soil
hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains
to relax; to feel at home
going out; one's best clothes; formal (e.g. language); best (behaviour, manners, etc.)
anecdote; brief (comic) story
to become sodden; to swell up; to become lazy
just because; even if; even though
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
to pass (of time); to elapse
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute