stay calm; don't be rushed; don't be flustered
control; management (e.g. of a business)
nasal breathing; breathing through one's nose; person's pleasure; excitement
popularity; favour; defense; defence; agreement; receiver of technique (e.g. in martial arts)
futures; credit (buying); stretching; total (preceding counter, unit, etc.); aggregate
bad-mouthing someone so as to be deliberately overheard; intentionally letting someone hear insults or sarcasm regarding them
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
to detain; to check; to restrain
chikuwa; tube-shaped fish paste cake
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
superior airs; air of importance; overemphasis
to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)
to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up
to apply correspondingly; to correspond to; to be proportionate to; to conform to
room in Edo castle where the shogun's council of elders attended to governmental affairs
departure; setting off; being used up; being consumed; passage of time; lapse; rehearsal
watery; soggy; racy; titillating; sexy
losing weight; slimming; lean person
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
sincerely; earnestly; repeatedly; over and over; again and again
stupid; meaningless; worthless; hopeless (person, situation); beyond help; beyond saving
timid; faint-hearted; wimpish
disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
again (and again); once again; yet again; (there you go) again
stupid girl; stupid woman
house where the family is out
manservant employed by a samurai (Edo period)
bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism); striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger
residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period)
Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
to blow against; to spray (paint, etc.) (onto a surface)
to enclose; to surround; to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to keep (e.g. a mistress); to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.)
to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other