poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
perhaps; possibly; maybe; by some chance
having a high threshold (for entry); difficult to approach; feeling awkward to go to (of someone's home)
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
performing music in the street; busking
invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion
proposal; proposition; suggestion
carrying in (esp. heavy objects, artwork, furniture); bringing in; taking in
coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins
quick; prompt; without delay; simple; easy; effortless
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
permission; approval; authorization; to permit; to authorize
threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
counter for parts, stages, installments, etc. (of a story, series, project, campaign, etc.); counter for bullets
easy; simple; informal; offhand; cheap
just because; even if; even though
somehow; somewhat; seemingly
rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom
emergency; extraordinary; unusual
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
female clothing; wearing female clothing; cross dressing (for a man)
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73
putting into operation; invocation
colored thing (clothing, fabric, paper, etc.) (coloured); variety shows
worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
girls' or women's division or section
by means of; due to; because of; according to
extreme modification (esp. of cars or toy figurines)