strong spirit; mettle; backbone; guts; fighting spirit
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return
grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over
in one go (i.e. skipping intermediate stages); directly; in one leap; straight to; all at once; at a bound
to throw into disorder; to disarrange; to disturb (order, peace, etc.); to corrupt (public morals); to dishevel (hair)
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
disorder; confusion; disturbance (of order, peace, etc.); corruption (e.g. of public morals)
wicked person; evil person; bad child; naughty child; bad thing; mischief
tomboy; rebounding; recovery; repercussions; rashness; incautiousness
to push up (one's hair) with one's fingers; to comb up; to smooth back (a wisp of hair)
south side of a mountain; Sanyo district
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; maxim
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
Bitchū (former province located in the west of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
one's right-hand man; one's trusted henchman
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
fart; gas; wind; worthless thing; insignificant thing
to like; to love; to be fond of
to make (tea, coffee, etc.); to brew a beverage (with hot water)
upright-floating tea stalk (considered a lucky omen)
omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
shipping agent; boathouse; inn for sailors
the same domain; the same province
insult; affront; slight; contempt (e.g. of court)
speech; address; curtain speech; prologue; way of speaking; manner of speech
(not) in the least; (not) at all; (not) a bit
to press a question; to cross-examine
barrier; gate; seki; mutual life
irregular soldiers; commandos