kamidana; household shrine; home shrine
to offer; to sacrifice; to dedicate
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
offensive smell; bad smell; foul smell; stench
in the same way as; just like
to agree; to decide upon; to enter into (a contract)
ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly
to climb over; to get over; to overcome (a difficulty, obstacle, etc.); to surmount; to surpass (a predecessor); to overtake
check; restraint; oppression; repression
courting; wooing; making advances
harm; evil; poison; blight; harmful influence
antinomy; self-contradiction; either-or situation; choice between mutually exclusive alternatives
to worry about; to be vexed
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
segment; slice; section; intercept
already completely (did, happened, etc.); already entirely
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
to blow away; to blow (a ship) off course; to make flutter (in the wind); to fly (a flag)
grave marker; gravestone; headstone; writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.)
empty; hollow; bare; main hall of a temple (often vast and empty)
great difference; major mistake
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa); 15,000 yen
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
spirituality; spiritual nature
good quality; fine quality; superior quality; high quality
deliciously sweet; delectable; sweet dew sent by heaven as a sign of benevolent rule (Chinese legend); sweetened water; sweet sake; amrita; ambrosia of the gods
to come to the point; to get straight to the point; to speak frankly; to speak plainly; to talk straight
to begin a trip; to depart; to embark; to die; to pass away; to depart this life
the proof of the pudding is in the eating; the proof is in the pudding; don't knock it till you've tried it; you can't tell unless you try
insatiable; untiring; persistent
(outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression
iron sand; magnetite sand
impudence; shamelessness; brazenness; brazen person; shameless person; impudent person
wringer (clothes); squeezer (fruit, etc.); press (grapes, etc.)
shibori; tie-dye; aperture; aperture stop; contraction; squeezing
unclean; dirty; unsanitary; indecent; dirty (story, money, etc.); obscene
tips of one's hair; hair ends