warrior; soldier; courageous person; strong person
crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)
cancellation; withdrawal; asking to be excused; begging off; not taking
to try; to attempt; to have a go (at something)
one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
moderate faction; moderates
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity
apricot (Prunus armeniaca)
flowering crab apple (Malus halliana); Kaido crab apple (Malus micromalus); Chinese flowering apple (Malus spectabilis); Siberian crab apple (Malus baccata); aronia (flower)
Japanese quince (Chaenomeles speciosa); flowering quince
Thursday; wood (first of the five elements)
any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry
too many to count; too numerous to mention
describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure
crowding together; grouping together; swarming; crowd; group; swarm
Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice
white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae); Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
a great variety of; diversity
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
spring scenery; spring air; signs of spring
new (residential) area (esp. built on reclaimed land during the Edo period); newly-opened region; red-light district; newly-acquired territory
rise; swell; elevation; upsurge
basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.); freshwater clam; freshwater mussel
kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
boss; leader; head; boss (difficult enemy, usu. at the end of a section or level)
to obey; to submit to; to serve (in the army, a prison sentence, etc.); to go into (mourning); to observe; to take (medicine, poison, etc.)
innocent; cherubic; childlike
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable
festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress