before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to
nature; property; disposition
orphan; person without friends
pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
to heal; to cure; to satisfy (e.g. hunger, thirst); to alleviate (e.g. sorrow, fatigue)
cherry blossom (colour, color)
prawn; shrimp; lobster; crayfish
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
thickly; viscously; sleepily; drowsily; dozing off
to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
(and) many others; extras (in a film)
to fall behind; to drop out; to drop; to fall; to spill
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about
this world; this life; world of the living
by nature; naturally; by birth; inborn
to begin to overflow; to start overflowing; to pour out
cheap; rubbishy; shoddy; roughly made
distrust of (other) human beings
to soothe one's soul; to raise one's spirits
color of honey (colour); honey-colored; honey-coloured
to sting one's eyes; to make one's eyes smart
to become dim; to become blurred
unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; wavering (in one's mind); unsteadily; aimlessly; unconsciously
to break onto (shore); to wash ashore; to attack
salty sea breeze; salt wind
suddenly; in a flash; rapidly; nimbly; alertly
note (letter) left behind; will
personal history; background; log; record; hysteresis
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
to breathe out; to exhale
being about to cry; the verge of tears
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders