sinking into obscurity; being ruined
conifer; needle-leaved tree
quantity or volume of water
counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc.; (arch.) counter for boats
rice plant (Oryza sativa)
high and low; rise and fall
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
fallow soil; idle field; set-aside; idled plot
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
development; revitalization; standing (something) up; waking up; tilling a rice field; drawing a card from the draw pile
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
actual article or goods; spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.); (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)
Sui dynasty (China, 581-618)
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
early autumn (fall); seventh month of the lunar calendar
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
postwar period; period after Second World War
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
skin; outer skin; integument; husk; hull; shell
refining; polishing (of rice)
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance