decline and fall; ruin; downfall; collapse
poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
(arch.) charmed and cursed; something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons
to store; to save up; to accumulate (e.g. knowledge); to build up (e.g. experience); to grow (a beard, moustache, etc.); to wear
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for; to indulge in; to devour greedily
much less; to say nothing of
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine
rough (estimate, outline, etc.); broad; general; generous; openhanded
any more; any further; any better; any longer
imagination; supposition; guess
utmost limits; extremity; limit
ugly; unattractive; unsightly; unseemly
looks; personal appearance; features
seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways
bright red tinged with yellow; variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)
to get entangled; to get tangled; to have poor control over (one's tongue, feet, etc.); to trip over; to become complicated
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
four legs; four-legged; quadruped
to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander
(arch.) to grow; (arch.) to spring up; to cut (teeth)
filthy; unfair; dirty; untouchable; disgusting; nasty
cloudiness; turbidity; nebula (medical)
mucus; mucilage; viscous liquid; phlegm
to be deaf; to not be able to hear
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
to lose a tooth; to lose one's teeth
vitality; energy; dynamism
to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
to name; to call; to christen; to term
to be dyed; to be tainted; to be infected; to be stained
white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); speech; one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; (arch.) white person
the three worms (in Taoism); worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings