nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
to make someone cry; to move someone to tears; to grieve
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
acceptable; satisfactory; approval; being in favour; Pass (grade); Fair
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
Matsuo Bashou (1644-1694)
section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
river; stream; River; the ... river
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
major recession; serious (economic) depression; Great Depression
great success; roaring business; busy; packed-out
front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
rope; cord; policeman's rope
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
not necessarily so; is not always true
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
hey there; I say; see here
good luck charm; uttered when using magic; abracadabra; presto
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
to deal with (a person); to treat; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to deal in
curse; spell; malediction
to confess one's love; to profess one's feelings
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); thinking ill of a person based on a misunderstanding; unjustified resentment caused by a misunderstanding; responding to kindness with resentment
complete works; complete collection; complete series
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial); solution (to a given problem); answer; explanation; interpretation
spell; curse; dharani; mantra
contrived; false-sounding
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
chunk; lump; thick slice; cutting into chunks
repulse; repelling (e.g. the enemy); driving back
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
true dharma; true teachings of Buddha; age of the true law (one of the three ages of Buddhism)
superficial; half-hearted; shallow
to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out
(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake