wood construction; woodworking; (arch.) gardener
haiku given as an example
to get a black belt; to obtain a degree (in judo)
broadcast; multi-destination delivery
manifestation theory (holding that Shinto gods are manifestations of buddhas)
cypress bark roof; hinoki bark thatching
tree form; tree shape; shape of a tree
mobile internet service run by NTT DoCoMo in Japan
to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
pessimism due to decadent-age theory
if not ... then what is it?; (this) is nothing other than ...; (it) must be ...; (it) is definitely ...
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
(quality of) signal reception
alliance and rupture; meeting and parting
breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium
traffic infringement; traffic law violation
to take another good look at; to reconsider; to analyze; to reexamine
allergic diathesis (predisposition to be allergic)
lookup function; search function
facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism
contrastive conjunction (but, however, etc.); contradictory conjunction
isomorphism; same shape; same type; same pattern
stuffing oneself with food; eating enough to go without food for some time
to spend all of one's time in idle amusement
going side-by-side; going abreast; running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with
popular (with); in favour (with); well received
large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; cramp (metal); tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together)
slender build; slender figure; leptosome; waifish; leptosomaic; leptosomatic
adult dog; fully-grown dog; mature dog
to stare back at; to look back at
phase change; state change; transformation