taking in; bringing in; capturing (e.g. customers); attracting; confusion; bustle
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
correction; revision; compensation (e.g. to a pendulum)
compelling force; legal force
opportunism; double standards; timeserving; expediency
to go unpunished; to be tolerated; to be allowed; to be overlooked
to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show
masterful performance; virtuosity
newly washed hair; wet hair
coat; tunic; jacket; outer garment
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
taking care of something by oneself; self-management
posterity; future life; life to come
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding
patterns of thinking; train of thought
hot (e.g. from the oven); steaming (from the pot); fresh; fresh (e.g. out of university); new (e.g. married couple)
to be worn out (from domestic life)
middle-aged couple; middle-aged husband and wife
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
environment; circumstance
whole; all; general; gross; entire; overall
to get mad; to be highly offended; to get pissed off; to get angry; to lose one's cool
to throw at; to throw something at a person; to throw a person down
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
health management; health maintenance; health care
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)
generosity; magnanimity; tolerance; length and capacity; measures
technique; art; skill; move
history of; experience of
tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person
strategist; tactician; schemer
good old wife; one's wife of many years