to shuffle (on one's bottom or knees); to crawl; to shift position (of an object)
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping
cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang
kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
unnatural; affected; studied; forced
the opposite direction; the other way
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
tradition; legend; folklore
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
pronoun; synonym; classic example; pattern
postwar period; period after Second World War
to make one's name well known; to gain much fame
one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face
to hide; to conceal oneself
cloistered rule; government by cloistered emperors
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes
to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
emperor; living god; god incarnate; miracle-working god (who appears as the occasion demands)
to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone
flourish of trumpets; fanfare
adopted child (usu. male); son-in-law
sex shop; adult shop; porn shop
tending a store; salesperson; sales clerk; shop assistant
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint
expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
imagination; supposition; guess
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
urasuji; side fork; frenulum; frenulum of prepuce of penis
glans; head of a penis; (lit.) goose's neck
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
to pound (e.g. heart); to pulse (e.g. vein); to pulsate