(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
empiricism; judging things from personal experience
beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics; artistic pursuits involving nature themes
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
one's habitual practice; usual measure; old trick
irony; rhetorical question
fanaticism; zealotry; blind devotion
faint; trance; swoon; stupefaction
in detail; with great care; completely; fully
detailed; scrupulous; careful; (arch.) diligent; (arch.) honest; (arch.) upright
stark naked; nude; bare; unvarnished (e.g. truth); plain (e.g. fact); frank
clinical (e.g. pathology, physiology)
precise; exact; detailed; accurate; minute; close
patient's condition; pathology
essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic
testing; experiment; test; examination; exam; trial
sounding out; measuring the depths (of a river)
incoherent; wandering; vague; rambling; whimsical
small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow
using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately
not limited to; not just ...
phase; aspect; field; side
thorough; exhaustive; complete
sample; specimen; pattern; model; example
doubt; skepticism; scepticism; disbelief
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
divining sticks; counting; calculation
judgement; judgment; expert opinion; appraisal
riding ground; racecourse; racetrack
to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
dark brown; colour of tanned skin
gaudy; showy; garish; loud
measurement; size; extent; plan; intention; arrangement
external; superficial; outward; surface
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
to inlay; to insert; to plug in (to a formula); to immerse; to trick; to deceive
childish; child-like; innocent; naive
gambling; competition; game (of chance)