answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
be (that) as it may; having said that
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
to look (stare) back at (someone); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to put a person to shame; to look back (behind oneself)
silent; silent film; silent letter
to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down
stipend (paid to court officials, samurai, etc.); salary; fief; (arch.) gift (given as a reward); (arch.) token of appreciation
bum; good-for-nothing; ne'er-do-well
to be covertly swapped; to be replaced (e.g. with a counterfeit)
plus; addition; positive (number); plus sign; positive symbol; advantage; plus
minus; subtraction; negative (number); deficit; loss; disadvantage; drawback
to shut one's eyes to (one's own faults, etc.); to pretend not to see; to pay no attention to; to forget; to fail to notice; (lit.) to put on a shelf
small amount of rainfall; (a) light rainfall
adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity
fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires); New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine; festival involving fire dedicated to the gods
unskilled; awkward; bad; clumsy; poor
to flap strongly; to stir up fiercely
trouble; problem; mess; difficulty; nuisance
main topic; main subject; main issue; this subject
reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence
multi-; multi-post; multi-level marketing; pyramid selling; mulch; mulching
behaving outrageously as though there were no one around; acting without consideration for others; arrogance; audacity; insolence
hopeless; good-for-nothing; incorrigible; foolish; preposterous; absurd
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind
distant look; faraway look
presence; dignity; corpulence; obesity
to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over
turmoil; chaos; confusion
fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit
to fix (a time, date, etc.); to set; to expect; to hope for; to resolve (to do); to decide upon
blunder; bungle; clumsiness
with a bump; with a clunk; yelp (e.g. of a fox); bark; howl
ancient and modern times; all ages; past and present
to pick up; to pick out (e.g. key points in an article); to single out; to point out
useless; vain; aimless; idle
memento (esp. of a deceased person); keepsake; heirloom; remembrance; souvenir
(carrying) close to one's person; next to the skin