no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
simple; easy; simplistic; inexpensive; cheap
farm work; field labour; field labor
(afternoon) nap; sleeping during the day; siesta
worthless; insignificant; unimportant; poor; miserable; wretched
commoner; plebeian; commoner (in Japan between 1869 and 1947; the lowest of the three classes)
young person; youngster; young people; (the) youth
to run around; to bustle about
affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
way of calling (something or someone)
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
naming (esp. of a commercial product or company); branding
cram school; private tutoring school; juku
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
phrase (verse, line); one haiku-poem
stiff shoulders (usu. owing to age); frozen shoulder
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
to exceed; to be even more (so); to exaggerate
to accept; to receive; to agree
karōshi; death from overwork
attaining enlightenment; becoming a Buddha; entering Nirvana; going to heaven; resting in peace; dying (peacefully)
general idea; concept; notion
reward; compensation; collateral; security; turning to look behind
to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way; to press and cut
secret art; secret technique; mysteries (of an art)
while alive; during one's lifetime
to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)
lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life
beyond human understanding
genius; prodigy; natural gift
to qualify (as); to have the qualifications (for ...); to be entitled to; to have a claim (for)
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation; moving picture
decline; fall; decay; withering
two times; twice; two degrees
to have an idea; to have a clue
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that ...
the body; the flesh; the outer man; one's physique
to dispel; to clear away; to accomplish a goal; (arch.) to make it sunny; (arch.) to make clouds disappear