to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one
feudal lord; (arch.) mansion; (arch.) palace
jujube (Ziziphus jujube); Chinese date; red date; small tea caddy (tea ceremony)
form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
almost; roughly; approximately
halfway up (down) a mountain; mountainside
interval; space; valley; gorge; loophole (in a wall); crenel
brown-eared bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis)
brown-eared bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis)
the wisdom of the ancients
(arch.) kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards); (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu
torch (made of pine, bamboo, reed, etc.); flambeau; torchlight
to carry around; to carry on one's person
to meet somebody by chance; to happen upon
vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard
retainer; retinue; servant
(passing along) from mountain to mountain
at full speed; as fast as one's legs can carry one
internal (e.g. disk); built-in; equipped (with)
coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)
western direction; Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise); western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
to lose weight; to become thin; to wither away
determined purpose; an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought); a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu)
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
two by two; by twos; as a couple