elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy
mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
too much; excessively; too
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger
graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.)
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
quotation; citation; reference
big fan (of something or someone); great fan
to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms; to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin
grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness
cultivation; refinement; culture; education
Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa japonica)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
talent for poetry; poetic genius
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
wonderful; splendid; magnificent
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (publisher)
Jetavana Monastery (India); Jetavana-vihara
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
beginning (of writing); opening passage (sentence, paragraph, etc.); written claim; bill
Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
world view; outlook on the world; Weltanschauung (philosophy); appearance of a world (e.g. in fiction)