to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish
dead of night; shades of night; black of night
one's (living) environment
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection
archicortex; archipallium
each place; every place; various places; all parts (of the country, world, etc.)
magical; sorcerous; supernatural
gesture; sign; hand signal
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
person adrift on the sea; castaway (on an island)
thrust; driving force; propulsion
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
low-level; trivial; coarse; low-dimension
ardent; passionate; vehement
speculation; thinking; meditation
highest peak; highest mountain; greatest authority; most prominent person; pinnacle (e.g. of art)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
oppression; suppression; pressure
material civilization; material civilisation
to write (e.g. a letter); to draw up (a document); to take down (e.g. notes); to have (lunch, dinner, etc.); to eat
scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer
both sides; two sides; double-sided
foreign element; impurity; admixture
inaccurate; incorrect; inexact; imprecise
mixing; blending; adding; adulteration; contamination
malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)
to boil up; to seethe; to get excited; to be in an uproar
excess flesh; surplus fat; flab
arteriosclerosis; hardening of the arteries; loss of flexibility (in thinking, systems, etc.); inflexibility; institutional rigidity
metabolism; renewal; regeneration; replacing the old with the new
myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)
universal; general; ubiquitous; omnipresent