guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo)
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 lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
shoji (paper sliding door)
to project; to reflect; to cast (shadow)
practice; practising; training; study
sliding feet; shuffling (one's feet); moving legs forward with feet never leaving the ground (exercise)
February; second month of the lunar calendar
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
being concentrated on one thing; devoting oneself completely to something
each house; every house; many houses
sacred wine or sake; sake offered to the gods
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
after a long time; for the first time in a while
attendance; presence; visit; coming; advent
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
to surround; to encircle; to enclose
continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe
not only ... but also; in addition to; consequently
stripping (of rights, office, etc.); deprivation; divestiture; forfeit; revocation
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
caller; visitor; company; guest
long time (since the last time); first in a long time
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
village headman; village mayor
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
to decline (in prosperity); to become deserted; to become desolate; to taper off (of a sound)
unfathomable; inestimable; immeasurable
proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative
spiritualism; spiritism; channeling; medium; channeler
retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing
incommunicative; taciturn
to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about
to conform to; to be in accordance with; to follow (rule, tradition, example, etc.)