thumping (heart); banging; pounding; racing
to tumble down; to roll down
feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy
to detain; to check; to restrain
the truth; fact; as it is; as you are; frank; bare plain
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
looking someone in the eyes; taking a straight look at something
to flip-flop; to do an about-face; (lit.) to flip over one's hand; to do something easy
sly; cunning; sneaky; miserly; mean; stingy
this occasion; at this time; now
jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point
to start with the looks; to get the trappings right as the first step; to start (at the wrong end) by focusing on the superficial
skill; skillful; dexterity; flattery
to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing
deep in the mountains; mountain recesses
natural water; untreated water; spring water
buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
(in) her way; peculiar to her
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
study tour; guided visit; field trip
embankment; bank; beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin
to yell; to rant; to rave
glutinous rice steamed with red beans or some other ingredient; (arch.) trickery; (arch.) deception
Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan
young woman who uses the first person pronoun "boku"
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
cylindrical container (pot, vase, etc.); having no waist (straight body figure, not curvy); being stumpy; sleeveless (coat etc.)
attractive to men; in a style (appearance, look, etc.) that men fall for; amorous woman
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye); indigo (dye); indigo (colour)
worry; care; anxiety; mental exhaustion
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued