Salix koriyanagi (species of willow)
quick; swift; nimble; quick (understanding, judgement, etc.); alert; prompt
to be charmed by; to be attracted to; to be taken with; to be drawn to
the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
to be beside oneself; to lose one's head; to go mad with something
pure; clean; untouched; innocent
The Nonpareil Kitchen (nickname for Osaka); The Kitchen of the Nation
vaginal discharge; menstruation; afterbirth
slow to understand; slow-witted
the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)
wind-swept; exposed to the wind
please don't fuss over me; don't go to any trouble; don't bother
prank; practical joke; horseplay; mischievous trick
evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; (lit.) a skink lizard's shedding of its tail
to find difficult to guess; to struggle to work out; to be unable to figure out
kink in one's neck; sprained neck
trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected
without a break; without stopping; incessantly; ceaselessly
let sleeping dogs lie; wake not a sleeping lion; (lit.) the spirit you do not approach will not curse you
Europeanization; Europeanisation; Westernization; Westernisation
to protect against the elements; to shelter oneself from the weather
to choke; to be choked (by); to sob convulsively
to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)
it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...
to stand firm; to hold out
protruding eyes; popped-out eyes
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
karma from a previous existence
regular (customer); client who frequently visits the same prostitute
cliff edge; edge of a precipice; perilous position; critical moment; brink
hornet; yellow jacket; wasp (of subfamily Vespinae); Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia); yak-killer hornet
appearing to have; seeming to be
to have a guilty conscience
to talk together; to chat together
to accept (a thing) with thanks
nagging; critical; talkative; gossipy
to get stuck in; to be mired in; to be addicted to
to fall on one's backside
acting according to one's own beliefs, being undisturbed by others
to feign ignorance; to play dumb
additionally; in addition