to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things
irritability; feeling of impatience; sense of uneasiness
near oneself; close to one; familiar
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman
reminiscence; nostalgia; thinking fondly of the past; recalling the old days
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
now (esp. in contrast to the past); now at last; at present; right now
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
death from disease; death from illness
district; section; sector
to make sure of; to ascertain; to confirm; to grasp
leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone
to row; to scull; to pedal (e.g. bicycle); to swing (on a swing); to operate a hand pump; to push through (deep snow, the jungle, etc.)
neighborhood; neighbourhood; street; block; town
tuck (e.g. in a dress); rise (e.g. in price)
remarkably; noticeably; considerably; appreciably
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
to creak; to squeak; to grate; to grind; to rasp
to neglect; to leave undone; to lay aside
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
auspicious sign; good omen
granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman
(arch.) Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); counter for objects with stretched strings (i.e. bows, kotos), curtains, papers, etc.
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
going down; fall; knocking down (in boxing); flooring; being out of action (due to illness, exhaustion, etc.); being down (e.g. with a cold); going down (of a computer system, server, etc.)
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
to go under; to pass under; to dive (into or under the water); to evade; to get around; to survive
rustling (as of silk); slithering (sound); whizzing; hissing