picturesque; pictorial; graphic
silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
hateful; detestable; loathsome
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
to one's heart's content or satisfaction
(divine) providence; dispensation
ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
attitude to life; form of existence; way of life
descendant; posterity; offspring
to taste; to savor; to relish
one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously
to take back; to recapture
dwelling; house; residence; den; habitat
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped
to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake
to yield; to give in; to bend (knee, etc.); to subdue; to overpower; (arch.) to feel down
retainer; subject; vassal; servant
distinction; discrimination
to assert; to declare; to list (one by one); to enumerate; to spread rumours (rumors); to go on and on (about)
to lead; to take the initiative; to take precedence (e.g. sadness taking precedence over anger); to be most essential
definite; final; decisive; conclusive
people (of a country); nation; citizen; national
subordination; dependency
to farm; to cultivate a field
drought; long spell (period) of dry weather
pasture; grassland; meadow
(death from) starvation; starving to death
worry; fear; anxiety; concern
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
to rescue from; to help out of; to save