common raccoon (Procyon lotor)
bad-tempered; aggressive; quarrelsome
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
to change (with the passage of time); to fade; to wane; to decline
this is why; this means; it is the case that
blue (colour, color); sad; down (in the dumps)
advance warning; previous notice; announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner
to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam
feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy
bodily sensation; sense; experience
time when slow music is played for cheek-to-cheek dancing
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
speaking voice; talking voice
laconic; of few words; reticent; quiet
(television, radio, etc.) receiver
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
hokora; small wayside shrine
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each
muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
looking or acting as if one owned the place
occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
deep regret; bitter disappointment; chagrin; vexation
to charge; to lunge; to flare up (at someone); to turn on (someone); to collide with; to bump into
around the clock; day and night
six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference
delusion; trick of the imagination
hungrily; greedily; voraciously; ravenously
to beat someone to the punch; to get the drop on (someone); to forestall
to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)