endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
life; living; I; me; student
to burn; to kindle; to heat (a bath); to light (a stove); to use (a camera flash)
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
heat; hot air; enthusiasm; excitement; fever
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
busy; hectic; frantic; restless; hurried; fidgety
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
common reed (Phragmites australis)
crowding together; clustering together; close formation; swarm
waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane
unobstructed view; perspective; forecast; outlook; insight; foresight
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
cumulonimbus; gigantic columns of clouds (in summer); thunderhead
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
drawing seawater to make salt; person who draws water from the sea
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood
a lot; plenty; abundant; exaggerated; grandiose
weather; the elements; fair weather; fine weather
fence; hedge; barrier; wall; railing
un-; non-; negative prefix
salt and pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray
to close one's eyes; to lower one's eyelids; to shut one's eyes; to die; to breathe one's last
un-; non-; bad ...; poor ...
one eye; one of one's eyes
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
right arm; right-hand man; right hand; right-handed pitcher
sleeve; wing (of a stage, desk, gate, etc.)
to tuck (e.g. sleeves); to roll up
tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing
to carve; to engrave; to sculpt; to tattoo
mizuchi; mythical dragon-like beast
to be(come) intertwined; to be entangled