balance of power (in a relationship); power dynamic
handbook; manual; guide; primer
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
setback; failure (e.g. plans, business); frustration; discouragement
episode; side story; story within a story; aside; anecdote
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
direct transmission (of mystery, skill, secret, etc.); initiation
superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address; overwriting (data, file, etc.)
same period; corresponding period; same year (of graduation, entering a company, etc.); contemporary; synchronization; synchronism
improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress; communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank
innocent; naive; artless; unsophisticated; pure; fresh
second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); stylish; chic; strange; quaint
as a child; when one was a child
(doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course
unanticipated; unexpected
whispering into a person's ear
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
your husband; her husband
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
to transcribe; to duplicate; to describe; to film; to picture
carpenter's square; instigation; suggestion
as expected; predictably; not surprisingly
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
cultivation of aesthetic sensibility; education in good taste
completion; finish; workmanship; result; outcome
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
kai-awase; Heian period shell-matching game; kai-awase; Heian period shell comparison game; tribadism; tribbing
guardian; protector; patron; parent
the opposite sex; isomerism
drip; fall drop-by-drop; suddenly (of drops of water)
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
figurative expression; metaphorical expression
to sound together; to vibrate mutually; to reverberate