to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to stew
deity of rice fields and harvests
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from
to catch the eye; to attract attention
conduct; behavior; behaviour
cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
guidance; leadership; leading the way
messenger of god; divine messenger
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
kuda-gitsune; pipe fox; fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses; stoat
ahead; before; the future
(arch.) leader of a nobleman's cavalcade; animal messenger of the gods (i.e. a fox)
hot-spring cure; taking the baths
abuse; misuse; perversion
superstition; superstitious belief
slope; sloping ground; sloping lot
the reason is ...; it is because ...
accumulation; pile; heap; sedimentation
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
two years later; year after next
every evening; every night
to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
stock-still; motionless; frozen in place
to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)
madness; craziness; insanity
one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters
curse; divine punishment; wrath (of an angry spirit)
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
killing and wounding; bloodshed