the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)
crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received
twenty years of age; youth; early age; tender age of ...
many; a lot; much; multitude
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
wonderful; astounding; marvellous
prosperity; thriving; flourishing
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
Japanese clothing; being dressed in a kimono; Japanese-style bookbinding
aloof; proudly independent; standing apart; solitary
grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness
(how) many times; (how) often
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
to gain a victory; to win
(with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force
simply; merely; only; solely
number of times; frequency; count
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
to head towards; to direct one's steps to
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
wild enthusiasm; being crazy about
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
two (long cylindrical things)
equipment; device; installation; stage setting
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of; attached or stretched on
to succeed; to bear fruit