gist of what someone else said; purpose of a visit
mountain road; mountain trail
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
rear; rear unit guard; anchor (man)
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
full retreat; general retreat
moonrise; rise of the Moon
halving; dividing (into two parts); bisection; the two equinoxes (vernal and autumnal)
A Dark Night's Passing (novel by Shiga Naoya)
occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
worldly affairs; public affairs
faint; indistinct; dim; (arch.) few; (arch.) a little
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
to look after (often medically); to take care of
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
tumult; great noise; clatter; hustle and bustle
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
timewise; temporal; chronal
(short) rest; breather; break
so; accordingly; now; then; thereupon; therefore
snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)
enemy movements; enemy's position
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
high tide; high water; full tide
daybreak; dawn; gray of the morning (grey); dawn (of a new age)
loud shout; excited cheering
dawn; daybreak; beginning
simultaneous; all at once
earnestly; immediately; exactly
level; even; flat; uneventful; peaceful; monotonous
uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently