reality; actuality; hard fact
pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase; seeking after
the senses; sensuality; carnality
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
tea utensils; container for powdered green tea (tea ceremony)
to pat (e.g. a dog); to rub; to stroke; to fondle; to caress
(tactile) feel; sense of touch
spring day; spring sun; spring sunlight
to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate
nearly half a day; approximately half a day
bank (elevation in the seabed); pile; heap
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
to explain adequately; to be accountable
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
Japanese and Chinese poetry; poetry; poems
wind and string instruments; music
refinement; elegance; grace
Song dynasty (of China; 960-1279); Sung dynasty; Liu Song dynasty (of China; 420-479); Liu Sung dynasty; Song (ancient Chinese state; 11th century-286 BCE); Sung
government; government service; the bureaucracy; government post; government official
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle; end of the world (esp. in fiction); apocalypse
Symbolist school; Symbolists
autumn zephyrlily (Zephyranthes candida); white rain lily; strings of beads hanging across a doorway; bead screen
Heian-period court clothing
to protrude; to stick out; to be forced out; to be pushed out; to go over (e.g. a budget); to go beyond
disposition; temperament; nature; mentality; spirit; character
surmise (about someone's feelings); guess; conjecture; (showing) deference (to); consideration (of someone's wishes); servility
Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate)
present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era
hyper reality; surrealism
group; faction; (political) faction; wing; school (of thought, painting, etc.); sect
to discuss; to talk about; to argue; to dispute; to take into consideration; to make an issue of
sublimation; sublimation (of an impulse); sublimation (i.e. transforming into a purer or nobler form)
karma; result of one's karma; fate; uncontrollable temper
rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power
wild beast; wild animal; brute
floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)