important point (e.g. on a route); important role (responsibility, etc.); opposition
attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation
guilty (feeling, conscience, look, etc.); (feeling) uneasy
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
cannot be compared with; no match for
public interest; public benefit; public good
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
to attempt; to test; to try out
true character; real nature
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
to persuade; to coax; to solicit; to seduce; to make advances; to make a play
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
filtration; filtering; percolation
tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room; dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
easily; readily; with ease; without trouble
fall; sinking; surrender; capitulation
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
deliberately; carefully; thoroughly; without rushing
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
indecent talk; dirty story
advice (to a superior); counsel; proposal; suggestion; recommendation
chief; head (of an office, of a laboratory)
meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
District Public Prosecutor's Office
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
sparse; distant (of a relationship); estranged; alienated
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamour
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamour
to make noise; to make racket; to rustle; to swoosh; to make merry; to clamor; to clamour
to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience
special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi); secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
to collect; to assemble; to gather
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then