bosom friend; intimate friend; close friend
overly familiar; overfamiliar; too friendly; too free; cheeky
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to underestimate; to make light of
to give up searching (for someone or something)
to disentangle; to untangle; to unravel; to relax; to soften; to relieve (e.g. stress, tension)
interjection; exclamation
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
fluff (clump of fabric fibres); lint; ball of dust; dustball
canopy; dome; priestly minstrel's reed hood; reed hood worn by Komuso priests
to grow restive; to begin to act violently
destructive blast; blowing up; explosion
multistoried; multilayered
destruction; collapse; crumbling
introspection; view from the inside; interior appearance; implication
running aground; being stranded; grounding; beaching
something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman
oracle; revelation; divine message; tedious talk; impertinent talk; repetitious talk
run-down house; dilapidated house; shabby old house; (arch.) rag and scrap merchant
to put together; to gather; to collect; to scrape together
absurd; unreasonable; rash; reckless; excessive; immoderate
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
high ground; elevation; hill; plateau
inland districts; inland areas
ground; earth's surface; land; lot; plot
wooden building; wooden architecture
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
to become misty; to become hazy
to muster (e.g. one's courage); to call forth; to rouse up; to be enlivened; to be invigorated
tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend
wicked thought; wicked mind
wooden house; frame house (building)
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune