to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts
don't you think?; indicates question
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
to say; to tell; to state; to do
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
crisp (like a pickle); crunchy; firm (musculature); stiff (shoulders, neck, etc.)
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
arrogance; insolence; disrespect
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
lady attendant; lady's maid; waiting maid
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
transfer; assignment; conveyance
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
sensible; clever; smart; decent; tasteful
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
small amount; jot; nothing much; (to a) slight degree; wee bit
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
low-level; trivial; coarse; low-dimension
attachment (esp. to things); love; affection
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
don't worry; no worries; never mind
presence or absence; whether something is there or not; whether something happens or not
more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage
Kyoto and vicinity (esp. during Edo period); Kyoto-Osaka region; Kansai region
admiration; wonder; astonishment
gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
flinchingly; falteringly; being overwhelmed; staggeringly; totteringly; unsteadily
detached; aloof; indifferent
heart; mind; bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); centre; center; heart (organ)