road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
fairly long period of time; (arch.) four-hour period
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
feeling keenly; fully realizing
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
paving (a road); surfacing (with asphalt, concrete, etc.); pavement
what's what; heads or tails
accomplishment; execution
to manipulate puppets; to pull wires
pointed knife; logging; cutting; (beef) scraps; starting to speak; extraction (of a portion of a media file)
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
eager; earnest; ardent; OFF (on switch)
(top) half naked; naked above the waist
ready-made goods; off-the-shelf item
to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen
to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud
to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess
ominous; sinister; (arch.) annoying; (arch.) appearing to be true; (arch.) plausible
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
water supply; water service; channel; strait; water course; waterway
electricity; (electric) light
gas (state of matter, e.g. poison gas, natural gas); gasoline; gas; dense fog; thick fog; gas stove
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing; life line (in palm reading)
foundation; basis; bedrock; substrate (circuit board)
car; automobile; motorcar; motor vehicle; auto
useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle
to disturb; to prevent; to obstruct; to hinder
human resources; man-power resources
plausible; believable; solemn; dignified; serious
carefully; attentively; profoundly; deeply; at length
soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl
to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)
unevenness; roughness; ruggedness; inequality; imbalance; unevenness
speed per second; velocity per second; instant; moment; a few seconds
pieces; scraps; disconnected
(shout of) encouragement; cheering; rooting; support