work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
dainty; delicate (e.g. fingers); fine; sensitive; delicate (feelings, sense, etc.); subtle
altitude; height; elevation; high-degree; high-grade; advanced
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
nothing but; none other than
reason; cause; circumstances
great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago
prizing; valuing highly; esteeming
Ritsuryo period (mid 7th-10th centuries CE)
corvee; taxes in kind or service (ritsuryo system)
tax paid to avoid forced labor (ritsuryo period); tax in kind; mediocrity
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
too many to count; too numerous to mention
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
use; utilization; utilisation; application
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
to mend; to patch up; to fix (hair, clothes, appearance, etc.); to adjust; to keep up appearances; to cover up (e.g. a mistake)
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
re-; again; repeated; deutero-; deuto-; deuter-
practical use; application; conjugation; inflection
Aomori prefecture (Tōhoku area)
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
collecting; accumulating; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.); garbage collection; waste collection
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
clothes for doing farm work or working in fields
many; numerous; various; large number of
worn-out; ragged; crumbling; dry and crumbly; falling (in drops or clumps); scattering
completely using up ...; running out of ...; exhausting ...
a piece; a scrap; a fragment; iota; modicum; trace