boundary; border; precinct; grounds
confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission; professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with); declaration of love; profession (of faith); confession (of sins)
to despair of; to see the vanity of
grunt; grumble; pimples; spots; cutting into small pieces; simmering
period; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi; Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)
waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae
writing (esp. commissioned calligraphy); drawing; painting
to drain; to flow (unobstructed); to sell well; to be in good demand; to exit the stage; to remove (a prop) from the stage
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
long sword (as opposed to the shorter katana); tachi; sabre-like sword worn on the hip with the blade facing down
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
broad-bladed kitchen knife (for dressing fish); deba knife
high place; high ground; height; broad (point of) view
to live; to reside; to inhabit
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
shoji (paper sliding door)
study; library; den; home office; reading room
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
a few years ago; some years back
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky
on the sea; on the ocean; offshore
fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly
to crawl out; to creep out; to begin to crawl
left side; left-hand side
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
to whirl; to eddy; to swirl; to whirl around (of feelings, thoughts, etc.); to swirl around; to surge
confirmed as completed; everything must go (e.g. in a sale)
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
ship's captain; skipper; length of a ship; boatman
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat