to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
to come and go; to go back and forth
(horse-drawn) cart; wagon; dray
quietly; slowly; gracefully
so; like this; in this way
survival; survivor; relic
grounds; foundation; authority; support; prop; something upon which to rely
premature; untimely (e.g. death); early
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound
to shake and untangle; to shake free from
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
tower; steeple; spire; stupa; pagoda; dagoba
top; summit; twelve o'clock (usu. midnight); top of one's head; top of a helmet
dense (e.g. fog, dust, etc.); thick; vague (as in being unable to think clearly); dim
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up
to fall and pile up (e.g. snow); to lie thick
to watch steadily; to stare
work of art; artwork; objet d'art
ingredient; (raw) material; unprocessed timber; raw timber; subject matter; topic
indicates uncertainty or second hand nature of information quoted
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
to knock down; to knock off
for a while; for some time; for a period
(made of) stone; stone-built
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.