mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
the most; the extreme; prime; conspicuous
to yield; to give in; to bend (knee, etc.); to subdue; to overpower; (arch.) to feel down
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
to relieve a person's pain
homogenization (e.g. milk)
lack of uniformity; unevenness; imbalance; inequality; disproportion
to drive a wedge into (e.g. enemy defences); to wedge apart
imbalance; lack of balance; lopsidedness; disproportion; inequality; disparity
slim figure; lean figure; weight reduction
digital versatile disc; DVD
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk
viewer; (television) audience
to be enlivened; to be exhilarated
since the dawn of history
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
deflection; deviation; variation; declination; drift
coagulation; freezing; solidification
organization; organisation; systematization; systematisation
specialization; specialisation; differentiation
chemical reaction; generation of an unexpected result from combining things
bustling; busy; crowded; lively (party, voices, etc.); loud; noisy
several hundred million years
hectic; bewildering; bustling; dizzy
to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age
(a) jump; splashes (usu. of mud); upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo); close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup
creation (of the universe); the Creation
reduced drawing; miniature copy; microcosm; microcosmos
portable painting used as part of the backdrop (in kabuki, etc.)
autonomous; autonomic; self-sustaining; self-directed
spontaneous generation; abiogenesis; natural occurrence; spontaneous occurrence
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
cord tied around the waist of a kimono before an obi is tied