to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award
defense; defence; safeguard; protection
piece of meat; cut of meat
heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family
impudence; shamelessness; brazenness; arrogance; audacity; effrontery
jumping to a hasty conclusion
to reach a situation about which nothing can be done
to penetrate; to pervade; to spread
to pray; to say a prayer; to offer up a prayer
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
to suspend from; to be suspended (from)
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle
duration; continuance; survival; persistence; retention
honest; incorruptible; integrity
to break by hand (e.g. a flower); to break off (a twig); to pluck (a flower, a bud); to make a young woman one's own thing
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
scorn; disdain; contempt; slight
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
promptly; quickly; without delay; before others; first
fault; error; going poorly; being disadvantageous; un-; non-
to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
taking no notice; ignoring; not even looking at
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
tottering; staggering; faltering; reeling
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamour
to knead well; to polish; to refine
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
counter-current; adverse tide; regurgitation (of blood)
I have nothing to do with it
submitting to (a demand, one's fate, etc.); putting up with; resigning oneself to; accepting (without complaint)
such a stupid ...; what a crazy ...; no way!; what nonsense!; how can that be?
the relation of master to servant
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
the Sheep (eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac); the Ram; hour of the Sheep (around 2pm, 1-3pm, or 2-4pm); south-southwest; sixth month of the lunar calendar