quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
to forget; to fail to recognize; to fail to recognise
beauty or ugliness; personal appearance; looks
minimum; lowest; minimal; least
grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully
whirling; revolving; coiling around; winding around; working tirelessly; working hard
as much as possible; as far as possible; whenever possible; if (at all) possible
to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
to flatter; to curry favor with; to curry favour with; to flirt with (woman with a man); to make eyes at (a man)
rural beauty; rusticity; rustic beauty
innermost depths of one's heart
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite
private agreement; private favour; inside joke; private joke
trend; course of action; directionality; directivity; directional; vectorial
talk (of the town); rumour; rumor; gossip
to be unable to let pass unnoticed; to be unable to be indifferent; to be unable to just watch (without doing anything)
strange; unfamiliar; unknown; unfamiliarity; strangeness; stranger
to be greatly perplexed; to be at a loss; to be sorely troubled; to be greatly embarrassed
to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of
particular; special; exceptional; particularly; especially; exceptionally
softening; softening (of attitude); mollification; weakening (of the market); blanching (e.g. of vegetables; by depriving of light)
to distribute; to arrange; to arrange; to lay out (as in decorating); (arch.) to marry off; (arch.) to exile
landscape gardening; landscape architecture
ramification; branching off
(arch.) eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); (arch.) eastern provinces; (arch.) east; wagon; yamatogoto; my spouse
fantastic; magical; wondrous; whimsical; fairytale-like; romantic
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to get late; to advance; to wear on
getting a lump in one's throat; overflowing with feelings; chest full of; lungs full of
banquet or reception hall
to split finely; to splinter; to get frayed; to become irritable
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to whine; to sing; to chirp
upright; honest; faithful; conscientious; sincere
nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)