deep sleep; sound sleep; profound sleep
mountain (or hill) behind a house, village, etc.; side of a mountain that gets little sunshine; envious; jealous
interchange; transposition; compatible (e.g. PC)
mountain cherry (Cerasus jamasakura)
(flower) bud; promising young person; budding beauty
to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes; free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music
to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)
small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below)
edict; public announcement
playing (a wind instrument); blowing
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
plaintive strains; mournful tone; sad melody
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company
mountain of death; steep mountain which the dead must cross to reach the afterlife
acquaintance; appreciative friend
to print; to color or pattern fabric using a wooden mold
eagle (Accipitridae family)
counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)
(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament
one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit
river surface; surface of a river
silver ring; bicycle wheel; bicycle
glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
passerby; pedestrian; foot passenger
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
ordinary; common; mediocre
eboshi; black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan
strange; unexpected; (by) chance; unusual; curious
brightly lit; brightly lighted; lit up; lighted up
to lead; to take the lead (in doing something); to precede; to go before; to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.); to be a prerequisite