kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
shopkeeper; storekeeper; proprietor of a shop
cart-horse; work-horse; doing something wholeheartedly; doing with one's undivided attention
lightly; easily; carelessly
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
pickling in salt; leaving unchanged; leaving unused
planned; scheduled; systematic
to be burned out (of one's home)
irrigation channel; irrigation ditch; irrigation canal; flume
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
barefoot; superior to (a professional, etc. in ability or achievement)
to till; to plow; to plough; to cultivate
rosary; string of prayer beads
to chant (repeat) the name of Buddha
trailer towed by bicycle, etc.
water supply; water service; channel; strait; water course; waterway
to put one's heart and soul (into); to completely devote oneself (to)
diversion; putting something to another use
foundation; basis; bedrock; substrate (circuit board)
towering; astonishingly high
main road; main thoroughfare
to be full; to wax (e.g. moon); to rise (e.g. tide); to mature; to expire
soon; before long; shortly; close (by); near; nearby
evening cicada (Tanna japonensis)
breath; sign (of something new and fresh); breath (of spring, fresh air, etc.); vitality
flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; current of the times; trend of the times
activity; action; occupation; business; sexual intercourse; sex
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
morning assembly (at a company, school, etc.); morning gathering
in case of; at that time; at this time
sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
finish; completion; the end