to be smeared; to be covered
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
general; popular; common; typical
Japanese person; Japanese people
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance
ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon
evil spirits of rivers and mountains
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
(vengeful) ghost; specter; spectre
appropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right
righteous government; just rule; easy method; simple approach; orthodox way; proper way
salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
deep-fried food (esp. chicken)
the Trinity; three parts; three components; three factors
brand name; trade name; product name
symbol; code; sign; notation
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric
in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
full of ingredients; hearty; substantial
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (something) with; to mount (gems)
production (e.g. play); direction
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
beginning; outset; first; onset
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
chewing; mastication; digestion (e.g. of words); assimilation; comprehension