to comb upwards; to brush up (a loose strand of hair); to turn up a lamp wick
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
growth; breeding; growing up (in, as); upbringing
Japanese person; Japanese people
staring (e.g. eyes); goggling; glaring
even though; despite; when
one long straight object (e.g. strand of hair, beam of light, wisp of smoke); a single bloodline; earnest; resolute; (arch.) ordinary; (arch.) common
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
(sound of one's) heartbeat
to be brought forward (e.g. by three hours); to be moved up; to be hasty; to be rash; to quicken; to speed up
pulsation; pulsatory motion
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
to fall on one's backside
in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
to become rough (waves, temper, etc.); to become excited; to become aggravated
appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)
calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
to jump out; to rush out; to appear (suddenly); to protrude; to project; to butt in
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
to jump from one thing to another
glamorous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited
vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump
bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh
hair on the back of one's head
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
to leave words (behind one, e.g. after death); to say (for posterity); to utter last words; to leave some things unsaid