superficial; half-hearted; shallow
hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
training (animals); breaking (animals)
purpose; utility; objective; way to use something
opening to the public; making available to the public; putting on display; exhibiting; showing (play, movie, etc.); holding (interview, etc.)
capturing alive (an animal or person); something captured alive
even though it is not; despite not
white hair; grey hair; gray hair
wand; (riverine) lagoon; fluvial lagoon
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
general situation; general trend; general tendency; way things are moving; current (of the times); tide (e.g. of public opinion)
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
Urashima Tarō; (a) Rip van Winkle; fairy-tale fisherman who, after visiting the underwater Palace of the Dragon King, returns centuries later
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos
abasement; fall; forfeiture; sinking (in people's estimation)
to have an uneasy conscience
palanquin; litter; bier; kago
(I) will; (I) shall; let's; (I) wonder (if); might it be (that); hey
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
mysterious bird; strange bird; eerie bird; monster that has taken the form of a bird
no, not like that (but like this)
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
evil deed; wrongdoing; crime; misfortune; calamity
meritorious deed; services
defeating an argument; winning an argument; refutation; confutation
wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I
arrest; apprehension; capture
to attack a routed enemy; to sink the boot into; to pour salt on a wound
speech and conduct; words and deeds
one long straight object (e.g. strand of hair, beam of light, wisp of smoke); a single bloodline; earnest; resolute; (arch.) ordinary; (arch.) common
to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to flap (in the wind); to instigate; to stir up; to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something); to take a photo from a low angle; to tailgate
to harmonize with; to keep in tune with; to go along with; to keep in step
stupid plan; inane way of doing something; (one's own) plan or project