mass communication; mass media
unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place
... all over again (repeating the same failure)
body and soul; mind and body
clear as day; perfectly obvious; plain as daylight
person of lofty virtue; man of noble character; perfect person; saint
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
to underrate; to make light of
overly optimistic; misjudged; underestimated
mature woman; middle-aged woman
heat; hot air; enthusiasm; excitement; fever
characteristic quality; special character; one's function; one's duty; fief; inherited estate
meditation; contemplation
(power) transformer; trance; trans
forevermore; for eternity
penetration; permeation; transmission
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
abusing someone to his (her) face
ridge (of roof); back of a sword; counter for buildings, apartments, etc.
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
room light; interior light
(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future
to dazzle; to make dizzy; to bewilder
breach of faith; breach of trust; act of disloyalty
low (level, value, price, etc.)
to be generally accepted; to be acknowledged by oneself and others
to find fault with other people rather than oneself; (for the pot) to call the kettle black
kalpa (eon, aeon); ko (in go); position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones
to give birth to; to have a stomachache
blood vessel; blood relationship
to bend; to warp; to yield; to be supple (e.g. bamboo, body); to be flexible; to be pliant
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man