seductive; carnal; troubling; difficult; anxious; uneasy
to be worried; to be troubled
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
Imperial Guard (Meiji); personal guard
rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering
slightly bitter (taste); bittersweet (memory, experience, etc.)
that is to say; so that means
becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality
superstition; superstitious belief
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
route; way; course; directions
to be nearing death; to be dying
how many months?; how long?
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
grace; favor; favour; blessing; benefit
to participate in; to take part in; to play a part in; to receive; to be given; to enjoy
land of the gods; Japan; Heaven
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
divine power; sacred power; mysterious power; Shinriki (variety of rice)
debtor; debit; way of borrowing
to know; to understand; to be aware of; to consent; to agree
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
(one's) skin colour; skin color; skin tone; flesh colour (of a Japanese person); flesh color; pale orange
dark brown; colour of tanned skin
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on
unselfish; selfless; disinterested
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
because of; owing to; due to
around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing
to surround; to encircle; to enclose
matter; thing; affair; circumstance
exact calculation; squaring of accounts; adjustment
to dispel; to clear away; to accomplish a goal; (arch.) to make it sunny; (arch.) to make clouds disappear
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention