top-quality sake brewed from rice grains milled to 50% of weight or less
spelling; orthography; patching; binding
sounding of a drum or hand drum; sound of drums; full (stomach); bursting
fox with supernatural powers
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
ox carriage (for Heian era nobles); oxcart
trend of the times; way things are going
memento (from a dead person); souvenir; keepsake; orphan; posthumous child
to constrict one's chest; to wring one's heart; to wrench one's heart
to end one's life; to end one's days; to die
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes; remains (of war dead)
bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
to breathe while sleeping
silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color
vagrancy; wandering; nomadism
stingy; cheap; very frugal
katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords
to begin some form of lifestyle
diviner; sorcerer; exorcist; medium
fluffy; lumpy (e.g. clothing); uneven; bulging (e.g. muscles)
ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; something strange or suspicious; idiot; fool; noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters
just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; (lit.) in the time it takes to say "ah!"
each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of
counter for long, thin things (i.e. swords)
to lose hope; to be plunged into darkness
silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color; bank
to the limit; to the full; as much as possible; with all one's might
to remain in memory (of sounds and words); to linger in one's ears
to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)