to hide; to conceal oneself
guy; fellow; chap; bastard; asshole; arsehole
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
half in doubt; half-convinced; dubious; incredulous
visit to a temple or shrine; worship; pilgrimage
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
coquettish; charming; seductive; (arch.) beautiful; (arch.) graceful
hag; witch; bitch; penurious or spiteful old woman; termagant; virago
old woman; joker (card); hag; bitch
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
nothing new; same as always; an old story; nothing new about it; not the first time it has happened
Ansei era (1854.11.27-1860.3.18)
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
Wood Rabbit (52nd year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1915, 1975, 2035)
second month of the lunar calendar
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
owner of a brothel or restaurant
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)
food; foodstuff; prey; victim
dark brown; colour of tanned skin
dark indigo (almost black)
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
tucking up the hem of one's garments
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
look (esp. an angry or upset look); expression
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old
pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at
to turn towards; to point