recovery; return to form; regaining one's (usual) form; demodulation
funds; capital; material; basis; character; qualities
to be filled to bursting; to burst
crisp (not moist or juicy); crunchy; crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.); doing skillfully and efficiently; doing quickly; (arch.) sound of pouring liquid
frost columns; ice needles
Imperial standard; worthy cause
king; sovereign; daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces (Edo period)
external troubles; foreign threat
share; portion; quota; cut
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.)
to smash (violently); to crush; to ruin (a plan, company, etc.); to wreck; to destroy
prior to; before; in advance of; the other day; some time ago; recently
person upon whom one relies
to act self-importantly; to be arrogant; to be high-handed; to puff up
truthfulness; credibility; sincerity; honesty; good faith
nothing but; except; no more than
to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
to make one's way into; to push one's way into; to force one's way though; to push through
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
hot spring area; hot spring district
to make worse (e.g. disease); to aggravate; to complicate
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin
thawing of snow; thaw; thaw (in relations)
temporary truce; ceasefire
to lie down (and sleep); to go to bed (with an illness)
concurrence; coincidence; complication (in illness)
stubble; unshaven face; beard one has because one is too lazy to shave; 5-o'clock shadow
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
falling (down); tumbling (down); failure; failing; renouncing Christianity and converting to Buddhism (during the Edo period); apostasy
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
snow shoveling (shovelling); snow clearing; snow removal; snow shovel; snow plow; snow plough
to use tact; to exercise discretion; to be tactful; to be thoughtful; to have the sense (to do); to take a hint
to come back (of an illness, cold weather, etc.); to return; to recur; to happen again