main; principal; main dish; main course; main part; principal part
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
society; the world; the times
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
fiftieth day after the birth of a child; fifty days
twentieth day of the month; twenty days
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless
length of time which food products will keep; to keep a long time
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
originally; primarily; essentially; intrinsically; proper; rightful
felling timber; cutting down trees; logging; lumbering
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)
forgetting; lapse of memory
unworthy; unbecoming; improper
blunder; fault; error; mistake; failure; disgrace
outside of; not covered by
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
sense of the seasons; feeling of seasonality
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc.
processing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal
to strangle; to constrict