to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath
work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus
control; management (e.g. of a business)
while alive; during one's lifetime
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
work (e.g. of art); piece; harvest; crop; technique
black; black stone; guilt; guilty person
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
light and shade; shade (of colour, color); depth (of flavor); complexity; strength and weakness (of flavor)
to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
smooth (of a surface); glassy; smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); continuously differentiable
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)
Nagasaki (city, prefecture)
Aomori (city, prefecture)
one-by-one; separately; in detail
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
to spread (out); to extend; to stretch; to reach to; to get around; to fill (e.g. a space)
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
to incline one's head to the side (in doubt); to tilt one's head to the side (in confusion); to be puzzled
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc.; veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to stay at (e.g. hotel); to be docked; to be berthed; to be moored
your; indicates high rank or status; indicates love and respect (usu. for an older person)
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
along the river; riverside