tedium; boredom; dullness; to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of
selfish; egoist; (arch.) self-indulgent; (arch.) wilful; (arch.) willful
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home
solitude; loneliness; isolation
by myself; in person; by oneself
surroundings; environs; circumference
rich in ...; high in ...; full of ...; very ...; quite ...
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
emperor (of Japan); mikado
personal admonition; remonstration
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
future (usually near); prospects
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
thousands; great number of; variety
to be worried; to be troubled
already; now; no longer; not any more
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
(not) in any way; in no way
quiet; silent; slow; unhurried; calm; peaceful
processing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal
second day of the month; two days
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain
willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages
I see; that's right; indeed
handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph
meaning; significance; sense
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand
woman's heart; female instincts or psychology
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
one day; (on) a certain day
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to