garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
mark; target; object; subject; point (e.g. of argument)
to slacken; to loosen; to relax; to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention); to not put one's heart in
dignity; majesty; solemnity; gravity
to be still half asleep; to be half awake; to be not yet quite awake
childish; child-like; innocent; naive
one more time; once more; once again
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle; end of the world (esp. in fiction); apocalypse
jumble; mixture; mess; muddle; disorder; chaos
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
to bake (a design onto ceramic); to fire (on); to burn into (one's memory); to sear into; to print (from a negative); to brand; to fuse together (metals)
to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)
destination (in travel); place where one is staying
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
to keep an eye on; to take care of
barefoot; superior to (e.g. a professional); outdoing; outshining
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
well-known only to those in the know; well-known but to the few; well-known to a connoisseur
to stand under a waterfall (as spiritual training)
gotcha; alrighty; got it; OK
leaving someone behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short
zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)
ascetic monk; trainee monk
direct connection; direct link
to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss
muddiness; murkiness; impurity (of the world, one's heart, etc.); dakuten (diacritic indicating a voiced consonant); unrefined sake
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
vision (of the future); foresight; large display screen; imagination; insight; (sense of) sight
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
playing in the water (sea, lake, river, etc.); playing with water
gaining nothing by; getting nowhere by
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself
stubbornness; obstinacy; disposition; nature; appetite; desire
vitality; energy; dynamism
to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)
the two views (of an object) referring to the same thing; being inseparable like the two sides of an object; two sides of the same coin
lolicon; (sexual) attraction to prepubescent girls; someone attracted to very young girls; lolicon; someone attracted to young or young-looking female characters