tengu; long-nosed goblin; bragging; conceit; braggart
origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry
sum; harmony; peace; Japan; Japanese-style
spelling; orthography; patching; binding
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
Toriyama Sekien (1712-1788)
painter; artist; painter supported by patron
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc.; veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe
mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition
transformation; variation; metamorphosis; modification; deformation; variety
every place; various places
universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous
primordial; fundamental; basic; primitive
unconditionally; as a rule
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
consideration; inquiry; enquiry; investigation; study
folklore studies; folkloristics
anthropologist; ethnologist
in the end; on top of that
natural phenomenon (phenomena)
declaration; proclamation; announcement
all; the whole; on the whole; all in all; generally
to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up
not all bad; not as dissatisfied (or annoyed) as one would have others believe
to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)
mediation; agency; carrying (germs, diseases, etc.); transmission; mediation
to replace; to move; to change the position of
change; conversion; transformation; transformation