graceful; ladylike; modest; gentle; polite; quiet
restive bull (esp. in bull riding)
feeling good; feeling pleasant
service area; toll road rest stop; rest area
water supply; water service; channel; strait; water course; waterway
drift; drifting (driving technique); controlled skid
animal (in nature); animal (in origin)
stormy weather; tempest; chaps (of skin)
cool; stylish; awesome; sick; sweet; dope
robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead
home delivery (of food); outside catering
large (engine) displacement
utter failure; completely wrong guess; big miss
(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house; reputation (of a store); good name; goodwill
potbellied sumo wrestler; wrestler with a big belly; goosefish (any fish of family Lophiidae); monkfish; sea devil
too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at
extravagant spending; wasteful spending; splurging; squandering
flair; flash; insight; flash (of inspiration, wit, etc.); waving (e.g. of a flag in the wind)
going to a work location in advance; arriving a day early (e.g. for a film shooting); cutting into another person's wave (in surfing); surfing in front of another person; having the front door be the entrance (of a one-man bus); boarding a one-man bus via the front entrance
strong motivation; aggressive ambition; hunger for success; (lit.) hungry spirit
the staff; inside the department
meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object
The Tale of the Heike; Heike Monogatari
modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)
entering the priesthood; priest; man with a shaven head; bald-headed monster
Settsu (former province located in the northern and central parts of present-day Osaka and the southeast of Hyogo prefectures)
babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper