(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis
rain intensity; passing shower; streaks of pouring rain
Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
close thicket; dense forest; jungle; Amazon (online retailer)
terrible; dreadful; tremendous; terrific; appalling; shocking
foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base
that well-known ...; the one and only ...; that; those; the
great writer; literary master; distinguished author
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
the whole company; the party; attendance (at a gathering); presence; banquet; dinner; troupe
fellow traveler; fellow traveller; travelling companion; taking someone along unwillingly (e.g. in death); forcing to take part
movie theatre; movie theater; cinema
screening (a movie); showing
reading in a monotone; stiff delivery; wooden delivery; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
innocent; childlike; guileless; free of malice; thoughtless; simple-minded
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to; all of a sudden
nature (of a person); disposition; temperament; quality; inherent characteristic; property
orphan; person without friends
pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
to heal; to cure; to satisfy (e.g. hunger, thirst); to alleviate (e.g. sorrow, fatigue)
light pink; pale pink; cherry blossom pink
evidence; (positive) test results
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
thickly; viscously; stickily; sleepily; drowsily; dozing off
to lose (something); to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
forever; eternally; for good; as long as one likes; indefinitely; endlessly
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
(and) many others; extras (in a film)
to fall behind; to drop out; to drop; to fall; to spill
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about
this world; this life; world of the living
by nature; naturally; by birth; inborn
to begin to overflow; to start overflowing; to pour out
cheap; rubbishy; shoddy; roughly made
distrust of (other) human beings
to soothe one's soul; to raise one's spirits
color of honey (colour); honey-colored; honey-coloured