conviction; belief; confidence
to grow light; to become white; to turn grey (gray)
hazy; dim; faint; minced fish or meat that is seasoned and fried
refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed
Prussian blue; deep blue; dark blue; ultramarine
(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
to call (someone) back; to recall; to call home; to bring back (memories, etc.); to recall; to revive
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
uncleanness; impurity; disgrace; shame; uncleanliness from contact with death, pregnancy, menstruation, etc.
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)
pressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
corner; edge; (street) corner; turning; rough edges (of one's character, words, etc.); abrasiveness
to be mistaken for; to be confused with
party; gang; company; squad
to rush over; to run up to
helmet (of a warrior); headpiece
to emboss; to print out; to print; to work out (e.g. policy); to hammer out; to strike (a drum indicating the end of a performance)
head; lead; vanguard; first
long, slender and well-proportioned; smooth, continuous (movement)
to have tears in one's eyes; to be close to crying
should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
one's right-hand man; one's trusted henchman
(arch.) retainer; (arch.) attendant; Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight); I; me
handsome; shapely; clean-cut (features); decent; proper; correct
order; command; decree; (software) instruction; statement
urgency; exigency; emergency
to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness); to cross a pass
patient's condition; pathology
to straddle; to sit astride; to mount; to extend over; to spread over; to span
by a strange coincidence; in an unexpected turn of events; by chance; by accident
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
return to base (of soldiers, military aircraft or ships)