dangerous; in danger; facing imminent danger; precarious (situation); perilous (state, balance, etc.); in doubt
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
dirt; filth; stain; blot; spot
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
wooden; made of wood; wooden construction
how many years; how long; what year
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness
rail (track); (curtain) rail; track (for a sliding door); groundwork; spadework
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
log; dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)
wood chip; splinter; worthless thing; worthless person
waste; scrap; garbage; scum; piece of trash; loser
frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
highway route (Edo period); main route
relay station (esp. on Edo-period highway); post station; stage
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
house; dwelling; human habitation
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)
corpulence; fatness; obesity
foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry); gaijin; (arch.) outsider
densely covered in thick hair; hairy; fuzzy
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
to fade; to discolor; to discolour; to diminish; to fade (e.g. of a memory)
flesh; meat; flesh (of a fruit); pulp; the physical body (as opposed to the spirit); flesh; thickness