famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
to ask after (someone's health); to visit; to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune
in and about a kitchen; family circumstances
very; greatly; exceedingly
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ...; it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that; on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
Ardisia crenata; coralberry
to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
establishing; proving; ascertaining; identifying; confirming
at a moment's notice; readily
adherent; devotee; believer
having said that; on the other hand
at least; at most; (even) just
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter
a little bit; a little while
to be struck with terror; to be terrified; to be scared to death
for work; in a manner related to work
document; official papers
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance
to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to
one's person; around one's person
smelling burnt; smelling scorched; smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; suspicious; dubious
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
crow (Corvus spp.); raven
nembutsu; nenbutsu; nianfo; visualizing a Buddha (in one's mind)
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired