moustache; beard; whiskers (on a cat, etc.); feelers (on an insect, etc.); shadow (on a candlestick chart)
straight; quickly; quietly; gently; to feel refreshed; to feel satisfied
elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
beloved concubine; favourite concubine (e.g. of the shogun)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
particularly; only; in the case of
unusual; unwonted; uncharacteristic
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful
to kill with a sword (knife, dagger, etc.); to slay; to put to the sword
lump (of flour, etc.); clump (of ground meat, etc.)
to admire a person's courage; to approve of someone's ambition
koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); (arch.) stringed instrument; zheng (Chinese zither); guzheng
to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
so; like this; in this way
late at night; deep in the night
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
unable to stomach; sticking in one's throat; displeased with
clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)
deeply; keenly; severely; intently; carefully; closely
pomegranate (Punica granatum)
pomegranate (Punica granatum)
sticky; gluey; gummy; stickiness; something sticky
detestable; abhorrent; loathsome
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
to vomit; to throw up; to emit; to send forth; to give (an opinion); to make (a comment)
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome
way one walks; one's walk
iron basket for torches; cresset; brazier; bonfire
shadow figure; silhouette
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
blink (of eyes); wink; twinkling (of stars); flicker (of light); blink (of light)
to clasp together (esp. hands); to entwine (e.g. fingers)
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
to tighten; to press hard