fall; drop; descent; coming down
explosion; detonation; blast; outburst (of emotion); explosion (e.g. of anger); eruption (e.g. of discontent)
colour; color; hue; tints
to blaze down on; to beat down on; to shine down upon
sporadic; disconnected; discontinuous; scattered; at intervals; random
to fix; to settle; to standardize; constant; definite; uniform
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
fast; quick; easy; simple; as soon as ...; the moment ...
strange; rare; novel; curious
living thing; organism; creature; biology
looking over someone's shoulder
torch (made of pine, bamboo, reed, etc.); flambeau; torchlight
the whole world; all lands
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
nobility; aristocracy; peerage
ox carriage (for Heian-era nobles); oxcart
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
childbirth; (giving) birth; delivery; production (of goods)
rock (music); rock; boulder; on the rocks (drink)
to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other; to have sex; to make love
rice cultivation; rice crop