to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
personality; character; individuality; personhood
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
charm; incantation; spell; magic formula
continuous; unbroken; ceaseless
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
demon; devil; evil spirit; monster; goblin; apparition
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
Holy City (e.g. Jerusalem, Mecca)
patriot devoted to the salvation of his country
holy mountain; sacred hill
foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base
chalk (mineral); white wall
rail (any bird of family Rallidae, esp. the water rail, Rallus aquaticus)
commerce; trade; business
function; facility; faculty; feature
centre; center; pivot; central nervous system
assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
ritual; religious service; festival
central part; heart (of a city)
clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced
cardinal (Catholic church)
don't you think?; indicates question
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
small amount; jot; nothing much; (to a) slight degree; wee bit
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)