story; tale; talk; discussion
slight bow (as a greeting or sign of gratitude); nod; salutation; consideration; thoughtfulness
elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy
conduct; behaviour; movements; gesture; performance (on stage, etc.); dance
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
physical weariness; sense of fatigue; washed-out feeling
medicated bath; (medical) decoction; infusion; medicinal hot spring
thin rice gruel; rice water
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up
to regurgitate; to vomit; to throw up
physical; relating to stamina; in terms of physical strength
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
being very busy; busyness
to cut corners; to be shoddy; to slack off; to play a tenuki; to tenuki
(not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) altogether
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
rearing from infancy; training from an early age (e.g. an apprentice); teaching from an early stage (e.g. a subordinate)
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; indeed; really
(being from the) same town (province, birthplace, etc.)
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
trivial; not amounting to much; not a big deal
satisfactory; desirable; favourable; seeming (to be); appearing
to accuse someone; to charge someone
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
to drop; to let fall; to omit
circumstances; condition; arranging; managing; lending money; raising money
five (long cylindrical things)
even; for starters; so; therefore; judging from; based on
opening (a letter, parcel, etc.); breaking the seal; unboxing (a product); unsealed mail
toxin; poisonous substance
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
(in) secrecy; behind closed doors
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
neighbouring country; neighboring country; adjacent country
intestines; bowels; entrails; guts; placenta (of a pumpkin, melon, etc.); fibrous pulp
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
unidentifiable; unidentified
to be brought forward (e.g. by three hours); to be moved up; to be hasty; to be rash; to quicken; to speed up
to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)
to come to meet (someone); to come to pick up
to make absolutely sure (that all is right); to use every means; to take all possible measures
one bow; one salute; one greeting
to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)