dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
to trample flat; to beat a path
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
along the road (e.g. following its curves without turning off at any intersection); along the street
right; right-hand side; afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
rain and wind; driving rain
immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit); person not bound by earthly desires
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to refer to; to use as reference
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
close thicket; dense forest; jungle; amazon.com
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
sense of unity; sense of oneness
hot spring district (within a town)
Japanese style; light wind; moderate breeze
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
breakthrough; great discovery
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
to repaint; to paint again; to break (a record); to rewrite; to remake
agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting
discovery; detection; finding
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
to market (something); to feature (something to sell); to trade in (something); to securitize
to come to mind; to pop into one's head
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
Japanese person; Japanese people
learned society; scientific society; academy; academic meeting; academic conference