disheveled hair; unravelled hair
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days)
repentance; confession; penitence
six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)
sins (which prevent entry into bliss)
Acala (Wisdom King); Acalanatha; Fudō Myōō (Myō-ō); fierce Buddhist deity
vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts
tying up; restraint; restriction; arrest
south wind tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles
responsibility; liability; blame; torture; torment
all that one has; all that there is; the whole
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)
Mahavairocana (Bodhisattva)
old woman; joker (in old maid)
palmyra; lusterleaf holly; patra (silver incense dish placed in front of a Buddhist statue)
request; invitation; privilege in criminal law given to nobles of the fifth rank or above (ritsuryō system)
blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
western direction; Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise); western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
one large ...; a great ...
the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened
Dragon King; promoted rook
to compose (e.g. poem); to recite; to intone; to chant
(the) negative (e.g. pole); yin (in Chinese divination); hidden place; unseen part
Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
to lie scattered; to be strewn about
to fall flat; to fall face down
calling on (someone) uninvited; dropping in on; visiting without being invited; presumptuous; impertinent; impudent
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence; pretense; (a customer) coming to restaurant, ryokan, etc. without a reservation or introduction
nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)
to suffer an embarrassing defeat
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
to burn; to scorch; to singe; to char
landing (on the ground); landing place; terminal; (shipping) destination; outcome; final result
to shoot or fire off an arrow
remarkably; markedly; rapidly; sound of breaking or creaking
awning (over a window, doorway, etc.); eaves (of a roof); narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building; visor (of a cap); brim; classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle