flavor; flavour; charm; appeal; experience; taste (e.g. of victory)
first term; first half-year; preceding period; early period
Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements
look; appearance; spectacle; sight; observation meditation; outlook on ...
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
study; research; investigation
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
Bon festival; Feast of Lanterns
beginning of the year; the oldest person
vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous
(those) who are; (that) which is; in the capacity of
to distinguish between; to tell the difference between
face; looks; vestiges; trace
to hide; to be hidden; to conceal oneself; to disappear
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
form; method; system; formula
now (while the time is ripe); while one still can
doing together (as equals); sharing; common (land, etc.); joint (statement, etc.); cooperation; co-operation
collecting; accumulating; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.); garbage collection; waste collection
one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good; lacking
even; if only; if just; as long as; the only thing needed
to forget completely; to leave behind
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
year-end gift; end of the year; year end
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
place that is often written about in waka poetry; oft-repeated descriptive epithets in poetry
haikai; collective name for haiku, haibun, haiga, senryū, etc.; humorous or vulgar renga poetry
seasonal word (in haiku); seasonal topic (in haiku); seasonal word used as a theme (at a haiku gathering)
precincts of the Imperial palace
close-cropped hair; harvesting
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
bored; having nothing to do; idle
rope; cord; policeman's rope
to twine (fibers to make rope); to twist
fasting; abstinence; confinement to one's house on an unlucky day
ceremonial offering to the deities by the Emperor of newly-harvested rice
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts