Kyoto Prefecture (Kinki area)
family vacation; family trip
rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa); Japanese rose; Ramanas rose
to await; to wait for; to expect
dizzily; giddily; spinning; boiling up
hyah!; hah!; there!; ugh!; argh!; damn it!
shout (of encouragement, etc.); yell (used to time or encourage activity, e.g. "Heave ho!")
one's heart; the mind; inner feelings; inmost thoughts; true motives
incompetent; no-talent; worthless person; dimwit; incompetence
farewell; adieu; goodbye; so long
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
to destroy; to break (by striking); to smash (to pieces); to ruin (e.g. a plan); to wreck; to do away with (an old custom, ideology, etc.)
stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)
thick (paper, cloth, etc.); heavy
to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
dead end; blind alley; no through road (i.e. on signage); end; end of the road; end point
bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste
to heal; to cure; to satisfy (e.g. hunger, thirst); to alleviate (e.g. sorrow, fatigue)
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
in the belly; in one's heart of hearts
personification; anthropomorphization
each time; every time; thank you for your continued patronage; thank you for your support; hello; I'm coming in
bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation; onlookers see more of the game than the players do; (lit.) people watching a game of go see eight moves further ahead
with a crack (e.g. branches, knuckles)
volume of water (in a river, pond, flood, etc.)
an instant; a split second; no time at all
to tear off; to rip off; to peel off
to jump up; to leap up; to fly up (into the sky); to soar up; to jump ahead; to skip ahead
look; glance; sight; summary; list; table
mishmash; miscellany; medley; jumble; mixture; odds and ends
one chance; only opportunity; maybe; perhaps; one-night stand
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
favoritism; favouritism; partiality; prejudice; bias