instability; insecurity; crankiness
to triumph; to be elated with success
to annoy; to irritate; to cause offence; to provoke; to get on someone's nerves
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
podgily; plumply; thickly
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); wall (of stones)
one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern; snot bubble
votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse
Vairocana; Mahavairocana (Bliss Body of the historical Gautama Buddha); Dainichi Buddha; Nyorai Buddha
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō
to offer; to present; to set someone up in a high position; to revere at a distance; to do respectfully
left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
letter (of an alphabet); character; writing
principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol; the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
(picture) frame; architrave (of a door, window, etc.)
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
to buy; to purchase; to value (highly); to think highly of; to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.); to elicit (e.g. sneers)
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
bunches (e.g. of fruit); clusters; crammed (e.g. with people); overflowing
there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
creaking; squeaking; packing in tightly; cramming; hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly
to cram; to stuff; to jam; to squeeze; to pack; to crowd