young bird; chick; fledgling; greenhorn; fledgeling; novice
destroy a country, but its mountains and rivers remain; the land outlasts the king
tirelessly; perseveringly; without letting up
dead of night; shades of night; black of night
whispering; whisper; secret talk; sweet talk; sweet nothings; lovers' talk
false reporting; fake news
closing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business
unrefined; tasteless; inelegant; prosaic; unpoetic; unromantic
sixteenth note; semiquaver
shell ginger (Alpinia zerumbet)
plausible (but untrue); credible (e.g. of a lie); specious; truthy
joint; reason; sense; logic
festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle
to take pains (doing something); to take great care
to make an appeal to the confidence of
autumn, the best season for enjoying art
lining up; packing tightly
fitting (e.g. door, window); fit
mizu yōkan; soft adzuki-bean jelly
to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears
if you run after two hares you will catch neither
toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox
boasting; bragging; talking big
fear makes the wolf bigger than he is; things are not as scary as they seem; (lit.) the ghost, when examined closely, is withered silver grass
primness; prim person; clear soup