recent state; present state; present condition; current status; current circumstances
celebration; auspicious occasion
to do what one is told to; to take someone's advice; to listen to what someone says
inhuman; heinous; atrocious
to contemplate; to ponder; to think over; to turn over in one's mind; to reflect; to muse
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
separation; divorce; severing of connections
to be knotty (of a tree, etc.); to be gnarled; to be rough and bony (hands, fingers, etc.); to be gnarled; to be knobby
mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish
Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)
(water-filled) paddy field
daily food; regular diet; staple food
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
barnyard millet (Echinochloa esculenta); Japanese millet; sanwa millet
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
importation; ingression; migration; transfection
natural features; topography; climate; spiritual features
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
each; (arch.) you (plural)
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
yellow silk cloth with a dark striped or checkered pattern (from Hachijo island)
tea seed oil; camellia oil
kusaya; brined, sun-dried fish (usu. mackerel scad) which has a very pungent smell
fishing industry; fishery
washing; sashimi chilled in iced water
ship's fittings or rigging
farming; agriculture; cultivation
of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless