honor; honour; prestige; dignity; honorary (e.g. president, doctorate)
doing whatever one pleases; selfishness; self-indulgence
very much; very many; more and more
weakness; debility; breakdown; prostration
method of bringing up; method of raising
tasteful; elegant; refined; charming; attractive
young; juvenile; child in the first year of kindergarten
wabi-sabi; aesthetic sense in Japanese art centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection
to peel off; to come off; to flake off
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox
lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea
popular; well-liked; common; frequent; popular music; pop music
sunken hearth; sunken fireplace
degree of success; success rate
drawing; painting; doodling; sketching
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
conscientious; reasonable (e.g. price); honest; honorable
trying out a pen; test-writing
as one likes; as one wants; as one wishes; as one hopes; as one sees fit; to one's satisfaction
completion; finish; workmanship; result; outcome
brand-new article; new item
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
coating (esp. lacquering)
few decades; many decades; several decades
to embezzle; to misappropriate; to peculate; to accustom oneself to using; to use for a long time
to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor
seemingly good; (of) good appearance; looking good
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
looking for (a suitable thing or person); searching for; hunting out; picking out; shopping around for; searching (a place)
shapeshifting (of an animal or spirit); goblin; incarnation; transformation
bunbuku chagama (a mythical raccoon dog transformed into a teapot)