feeling refreshed; feeling relieved
fantastical idea; fanciful notion; bizarre thought
recent past; recent times; early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)
origin; beginning; source; rise
original idea; originality
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
clothing; costume; outfit; garment; dress
clothing; costume; outfit; garment; dress
suō (ceremonial dress of lower-class samurai)
variety of ceremonial dress made of intertwined cloth and silk threads
kabuki; Japanese classical drama
sudden; abrupt; impromptu skit; bandwagon fan; fair-weather fan
to mix; to combine; to exchange (words, fire, etc.); to cross (e.g. swords); to join together
gathering place; labour camp for drifters, criminals, etc. (Edo period); entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre)
hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam
beautiful shiny autumn leaves
counter for waves (of a repeated occurrence)
remaining text omitted (in quotation)
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly
interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
this and that; one thing or another
to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers); landscape picture; mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain; garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond
rare; strange; odd; peculiar
mediation; agency; carrying (germs, diseases, etc.); transmission; mediation
line; queue; procession; matrix
each house; every house; many houses
colouring; coloring; colorant
scissors (esp. surgical scissors)
scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch
garden shrubs; trees; potted plant
to prune; to trim; to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest; to prune (a manuscript); to cut down
honorific affix; honorific prefix