to find someone's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
to cut out; to clip from; to extract
stopper; cork; plug; tap; faucet; stopcock
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post); to be delivered
result; effect; performance; workmanship (of an article); execution; shape and quality
advanced student; advanced learner; advanced practitioner; experienced person
to sniff out; to get wind of
ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage
lowish; somewhat low; on the low side; low (ball)
brown rat (Rattus norvegicus); common rat; dark grey; dark gray; deceitful employee; unfaithful servant
degeneration; retrogression; atrophy; regression (e.g. of society); deterioration; degeneration
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
base (of a polygon); bottom (of the social scale); lower levels; base (e.g. of support); foundation
to form; to make; to build up (e.g. a fortune); to create; to accomplish; to achieve; to change (into)
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
universal love (regardless of race, borders, religion, etc.); universal benevolence
scene; sight; scenario; setting
place near the mountains; hilly section of a city (e.g. the Yamate area in Kōbe)
at regular intervals; evenly spaced
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject
to start singing (of birds, etc.)
the grass; grassy place (esp. with long dense grass)
bell cricket (Meloimorpha japonica); (arch.) pine cricket (Xenogryllus marmoratus)
tree cricket (Oecanthus longicauda)
Ornebius kanetataki (species of scaled crickets); ringing a bell; bell ringer; bell hammer
advance guard; vanguard; avant-garde; forward (player)
cannot be helped; unavoidable
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
water pistol; squirt gun; water gun
point of ignition; flash point
wherein; therein; thereinto
running as fast as one can
tropical rat mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti)
tick (Acari spp.); mite; hoodlum; tough
vertebrate; vertebrates; vertebrata
collection (gathering) and distribution