sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air
mysterious; bewitching; alluring; enticing; enchanting
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
finish; completion; the end
atonement; redemption; compensation
to warm (e.g. one's hands over a fire); to dry; to toast; to grill; to broil
to talk; to carry meaning
to remove; to take away; to clear away; to tear down; to pull down; to demolish
to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan); to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable; to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
atonement (for one's sins); expiation; making amends; making up for (a misdeed)
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
quality (of a product or a service)
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
glance; look; glimpse; complete view; bird's-eye view
upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
layout (of a house or apartment); arrangement of rooms
furnishings; implements; equipment
poor excuse (of a); nearly non-existent; barely sufficient; token (effort, etc.); symbolic
guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane); drawing room
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
suspension system (of a vehicle); undercarriage; area around one's feet; footwear
(eating up) quickly; in no time; quickly (sticking out one's tongue); licking; licking up; (peeling off) in one go
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
scar (e.g. from operation, injection); trace; mark (e.g. skid marks)
surgery (branch of medicine); department of surgery
superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
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