idea; plan; fancy; impulse; thought; whim
surroundings; environs; circumference
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
fool; blockhead; idiot; dunce
details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof
solitude; loneliness; isolation
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
relief; reassurance; recognition of right to land ownership (by the shogunate, a feudal lord, etc.); (arch.) living safely surrounded by walls
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
although I say; although one might say; although called
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
opinion; point of view; visual point
sense of values; values; value system
not holding on; not using the hands; letting go one's hold; lack of reserve (in expressing one's emotions); lack of restraint; openly (saying)
negative (e.g. thinking); negative; negative (electrical polarity)
to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day
to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal
tension; mental strain; nervousness
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still
at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth
Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
face; visage; look; expression; honor; honour
daimyo in the Warring States period
to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with
popular name; common name; nickname; alias
pit viper (esp. the mamushi, Gloydius blomhoffi)
strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot
treachery; betrayal; perfidy
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
pit viper (esp. the mamushi, Gloydius blomhoffi)
mother's body (esp. when pregnant or after giving birth); parent body; parent organization; base
to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely
to be born; to come into the world
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
frightening; scary; (arch.) extreme; (arch.) exaggerated; (arch.) huge
nickname; alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume; other name