inquiry; enquiry; investigation; (police) interview; questioning (e.g. witness, suspect); hearing
offensive smell; off-flavor; off-flavour
to turn (one's face) away; to avert (one's eyes)
authorization; authorisation; acknowledgment; acknowledgement; certification; recognition
sect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)
Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism
eagle (Accipitridae family)
Nichiren sect; Tendai sect; Lotus Sutra
irony of fate; twist of fate
autopsy; inquest; investigation of death
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582.6.21)
attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of
last words recited to the newly departed; requiem; converting people to Buddhism
to rise (of a building, mountain, etc.); to tower; to soar
to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to be fickle; to be irresolute; to vacillate
stone tower; stone pagoda; tombstone; gravestone
edge; angle; ridge (e.g. of a mountain)
chasm; interstice; crevice; vulva; slit; cunt
to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of; to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle
bearing; presenting; holding up (emperor's picture)
misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity
to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)
laughing while crying; smiling through one's tears; (alternately) laughing and crying; tears and laughter; joy and sorrow
to age; to grow old (esp. in appearance); to show marks of age
carrying out the will of one's lord
to become used to seeing; to be familiar with
to become calm; to die down
cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)
south wind tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
the solar calendar; the Gregorian calendar
Buddhist lantern festival
(all) at once; at the same time; in one go; right away; in an instant
dreary; bleak; lonely; lonesome; desolate
winter landscape; winter scenery; wintry landscape; wintry scene
magnificent spectacle; thrilling sight; grand view