to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
to face on; to look out on to
basin (e.g. between mountains)
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
difference; disparity; gap
place; situation; position; location
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
to shut; to close; to block (a street, entrance, etc.); to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to consume (with negative feelings)
mountaineering club; mountain area
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
elevation; height above sea level
through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of
greenish gray; greenish grey
Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)
lofty; soaring; towering; precipitous; high and steep; sharply sticking out
ridgeline; lines of a mountain ridge
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
to begin to fall (rain, etc.)
beginning; outset; first; onset
powder snow; powdery snow
falling lightly (e.g. snow, petals, confetti); fluttering; flickering; twinkling; appearing and disappearing; catching glimpses
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
twentieth day of the month; twenty days
season (e.g. fruit, fish); in vogue; popular; fresh
deserted village; poor village
end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
sudden; abrupt; impromptu skit; bandwagon fan; fair-weather fan
to rank with; to rank among
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to lie deep in; to extend far back