to turn one's head; to look over one's shoulder; to turn around; to think back (on); to reminisce; to look back (on)
having in mind; happening to know of; idea
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
journal; magazine; periodical
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
peephole (e.g. in a door); observation window; viewing window
to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes); to hook; to catch; to cheat; to evade payment; to drink (alcohol)
chain (bicycle, measuring, tire, etc.); chain (store, hotel, etc.)
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
as expected; predictably; not surprisingly
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
place; situation; position; location
to shake; to sway; to waver
to be intolerable; to be unpardonable
remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
one turn; one round; (a) size; to go around; to make a circuit; twelve years
dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail
lidded plastic container; Tupperware
semi-transparent; translucent
nimono; food cooked by boiling or stewing
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
to repeat; to do something over again
assistance; support; subsidy; supplement; auxiliary; subsidiary
for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
general; popular; common; typical
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
to air; to dry; to drain (off); to drink up; to deprive of a role, job, etc.
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
all; entire; whole; altogether