gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
wonder drug; miracle cure; elixir
teaching Buddhism; rough person; bullying; ostentatious bravado
horsemanship; equestrian art; (art of) riding
surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand
together; jointly; at the same time; with; both
sumo wrestling; wrestler; rikishi
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
mawashi; belt; mantle; cape; gang rape
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
to place one's arms under those of the opponent and lift them up, in order to prevent an overhand grip on one's mawashi
arm; skill; efforts; ability
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
thought; report on one's investigation into ...; deceased father
emphasis; stress; main point; point of a lever where force is applied
lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk; Latin (language)
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
fiery chariot; kasha (mythical beast said to devour dead bodies); (in China) train (i.e. steam locomotive); (arch.) vile old hag
aviation; flight; flying; to fly; to take a flight
Minakata Kumagusu (1867.5.18-1941.12.29)
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
life; living; I; me; student
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
to dig up; to unearth; to uncover
wolf (Canis lupus); wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer
same kind; accomplices; companions
transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself; artificial fly (for fishing)
elderly woman; senior lady-in-waiting
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
Konjaku Monogatarishū (abbr) (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); The Tale of Konjaku
some; several; many; how many; how much; very