green tract of land; green space
vast; boundless; vague; obscure
colonnade; row of columns
mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief
bedroom (esp. one used by a married couple); sleeping quarters; inner room; room at the back of the house
to find somebody's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
fault; dislocation; gap; discrepancy
wall of rock; rock cliff; rock face
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
to tower over the surroundings
to crack; to develop a crack
ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
Tamarix chinensis; Chinese tamarisk
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic
colouring; coloring; shade (of colour); flavour; nuance; feel
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
kneading; gloss; paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste); parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals
walnut (Juglans spp., esp. Juglans regia)
entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning
to cover (smear, sprinkle) (with)
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
pickling in salt; leaving unchanged; leaving unused
smoked food; smoking (fish, meat, etc.); smoked
hot taste; sharp taste; pungent taste; salty taste
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; breakfast (in Zen temples)
to satisfy one's appetite
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
when it becomes; when it comes to
to breathe while sleeping
gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn