authorization; authorisation; acknowledgment; acknowledgement; certification; recognition
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
to go out for tea (or coffee, etc.)
animation; animated film; animated cartoon; anime
foobar-style name for a dummy variable
network; Internet; net (hair, netball, etc.); net (price, weight, etc.); nett
to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to take good care of; to look after
having said that; on the other hand
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
to incur someone's enmity
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
sound of the wind; voice of the wind
to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
to bend; to flutter; to wave; to yield to; to be swayed by; to bow to
to chip; to nick; to break; to lack
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
caravan; group of people touring to sell, investigate, etc.
camel; camel (cloth); cloth made from camel hair; camel (color); light yellowish brown
people; men and women; each person; everybody
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
to blow against; to spray (paint, etc.) (onto a surface)
to walk; to move forward; to make progress
scenery; scene; landscape
to shut; to close; to block (a street, entrance, etc.); to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to consume (with negative feelings)
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
to continue to do; to persist in doing
sunlight; rays of the Sun