date and time (of a meeting, departure, etc.); days and hours
bento; Japanese box lunch
play; playing; pleasure; amusement; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); slack
to start for home; to head for home; to make for home
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
the more I think about it; the more one thinks about it
piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild
to come and go; to go back and forth
to make sure; to check; to ascertain; to confirm; to verify
oh; ah; if there is; as for that; that is
shoji (paper sliding door)
fittings that open and close (doors, windows, shoji, fusuma, etc.); fixtures
to surround; to crowd around; to gather around; to encircle; to besiege
within the (Tokyo) metropolitan area
hospitalization; hospitalisation
news; word; tidings; omen; foreboding; premonition
incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling
lower grades of primary school (first, second, and sometimes third grades)
movie; film; motion picture
fireball; ball of fire; will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
to leave a trail; to leave traces; to have a lasting effect
to fly about; to jump about; to bustle about
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about
ascetic; pilgrim; devotee
Tochigi Prefecture (Kanto area)
hot water; hot bath; hot spring; molten iron
sunlight; sunshine; Nikkō (city in Tochigi); Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari
defeated soldier fleeing the enemy
Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
snowy; covered in deep snow