insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
encouragement; inspiration; rousing; stirring up; raising (e.g. morale)
to push on; to plunge forward; to push one's way to
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
crowd (of people); large group of people
doubt; suspicion; misgivings; scruples
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood
intricate workmanship; delicate handiwork; cheap trick; petty trick; obvious stratagem
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across
(arch.) gourd; (arch.) calabash; (arch.) bottle gourd; dried gourd, used as flask
what one desires; what one hopes for; suits me well; could ask for nothing better; bring it on
clanging (of a bell); jangling; ding-dong; continuously; incessantly; one after another
silver-colored folding fan (coloured)
tedious; boring; being fed up with
to push aside; to push one's way through
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
dark blue ground; dark blue cloth
quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
going along with something; following the crowd; treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
mixed (e.g. team, chorus)
picturesque scenery; place of scenic beauty
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
living thing; living creature; animal; life
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
(arch.) straight; ordinary; common; doing nothing
Yamashiro (former province located in the south of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine