recommendation; referral; endorsement
seeking the bizarre (abnormal, grotesque, etc.)
stinging; smarting; on edge; nervous; ripping; peeling
to fold (one's) arms; to stand by and do nothing; to look on passively
separate room; another room; special room; (arch.) concubine (of a noble)
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
to be suspected (of); to be under suspicion (of)
state of mind; (one's) mental state
popular will; will of the people
innocence; being not guilty
highly unpredictable; touch and go
untalkative; quiet; taciturn; reticent; uncommunicative
individual; separate; personal; case-by-case
miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary
as if it were about oneself
bad guy; villain; evildoer; scoundrel
short pause; short interval
to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against
objection; dissent; protest
to stay indoors; to be confined indoors
incredibly brutal; gory; gruesome
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
to be indelibly stained or ingrained; to be dyed in deeply
clairvoyance; second sight; clairvoyant
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
literary style; classical style
other; another; over; more than; I; me
determination; resolution
business trip; official trip
old character form; kyūjitai; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
full of vigor and vitality (like the rising sun) (vigour); being in the ascendant
with difficulty; faltering; tottering; awkward