principle of laissez-faire
to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug
purificatory font at shrines and temples; kitchen; cupboard; room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed; vendor of drinking water; building for taking refuge during a flood
layout (of a house or apartment); arrangement of rooms
emotion; feeling; atmosphere; mood; spirit
taste for the simple and quiet; rustic simplicity; austere refinement; enjoyment of a quiet life
patina; antique look; elegant simplicity; well-trained voice
to be too numerous; to be too much
intricate; elaborate; complicated; complex
to think; to use one's head; to exercise one's brains
night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm)
garden lantern; hanging lantern
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
to put away one's bedding; to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed)
to begin; to set about; to start
theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan
mounting (of a picture); binding (of a book)
Urasenke school of tea ceremony
head of a school (of music, dance); head family of a school
writing (especially of a Zen monk); penmanship
harvest moon (trad. 15th day of the 8th lunar month)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
Tang dynasty (of China; 618-907); T'ang dynasty; (arch.) China; (arch.) foreign country
representative; exemplary; model
poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters
section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
deep and quiet bamboo grove
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); (arch.) stringed instrument
being unknown; not knowing; ignorance; foolishness
to mutually shine on (each other)
to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
frequently; often; (staring) fixedly; narrowly; closely