village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
thinly; slightly; vaguely; a little
mask; disguise; guise; mask
agreement; stipulation; contract
to change; to alter; to mistake; to make a mistake; to fail to keep (e.g. one's promise); to sprain (a muscle)
(Edo-period) chief minister
in respect of; in regard to; as for
from (this, here, etc.); since (this)
one's first campaign; one's first battle
sound; sure; safe; steady; firm
standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; joseki (jōseki); standard sequence of moves (esp. in a corner)
to run out (e.g. of the room)
to accompany; to follow; to keep up with
leader; leaders; dotted line; reader (textbook); reader (i.e. a person who reads); microreader
one's habitual practice; usual measure; old trick
tip of an ear (of wheat, etc.); tip (of a brush, spear, etc.); point; spearhead
single horseman; wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
to replace; to convert; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
hollow; mid-air; air; sky
idol (esp. in the philosophy of Francis Bacon: idols of the tribe, cave, market, and theater)
apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
heat shimmer; heat haze; shimmering of hot air
platoon commander; section commander
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
mouth; speech; counter for people or implements
to make (a thundering sound); to let resound; to make (one's name, etc.) widely known; to make (one's heart) pound; to throb
to jump back; to leap back; to jump aside; to jump out of the way
to run through; to run past
to check; to stop; to keep back
in an instant; in a flash; in the blink of an eye; in no time at all; just like that
to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)
red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors); two teams; two groups; Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)