Official HIGE DANdism · Japanese · 33 words
Editorial, Part 1
Editorial (2021) is Higedan's most ambitious record. Apoptosis names a relationship's ending in biological terms and carries the album's quietest vocabulary - 訪れる, 鎮まる, 出くわす, 横たわる - I LOVE... works entirely in colour and water (水槽, 絵の具, 色彩), and Cry Baby, the Tokyo Revengers theme, supplies the bruises: 胸ぐら, 青あざ, 腫れ上がる, 抉る.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| よそ見 | looking away, letting one's eyes wander (よそみ) | よそ見運転は危険だ。Driving while looking away is dangerous. |
| 愛おしい | dear, precious, endearing (いとおしい) | 寝顔があまりに愛おしい。That sleeping face is unbearably dear. |
| 染み込む | to soak into, to permeate (しみこむ) | 匂いが服に染み込んでしまった。The smell has soaked into my clothes. |
| 後先 | before and after, the consequences (あとさき) | 後先考えずに引き受けてしまった。I took it on without thinking of the consequences. |
| 至極 | extremely, perfectly (しごく) | 至極もっともな意見だと思う。I think that's a perfectly reasonable view. |
| 訪れる | to visit, to arrive (of a season or moment) (おとずれる) | ようやく春が訪れた。Spring has finally arrived. |
| 蝉 | a cicada (せみ) | 夏になると蝉がうるさい。The cicadas are noisy in summer. |
| 方角 | a direction, a bearing (ほうがく) | 駅はどちらの方角ですか。Which direction is the station? |
| 鎮まる | to quieten down, to subside (しずまる) | 騒ぎがようやく鎮まった。The commotion finally subsided. |
| 出くわす | to run into, to come across (でくわす) | 駅で昔の同級生に出くわした。I ran into an old classmate at the station. |
| 横たわる | to lie down, to lie across (よこたわる) | 倒木が道に横たわっていた。A fallen tree lay across the road. |
| 戸惑う | to be bewildered, to be at a loss (とまどう) | 急な変更に戸惑っている。I'm bewildered by the sudden change. |
| 卒なく | competently, without a hitch (そつなく) | 彼は仕事を卒なくこなす。He handles the work competently. |
| 引力 | gravitational pull, attraction (いんりょく) | 月の引力が潮を動かす。The moon's pull moves the tides. |
| 逆らう | to go against, to defy (さからう) | 流れに逆らって泳いだ。I swam against the current. |
| 水槽 | a fish tank, a water tank (すいそう) | 水槽の掃除をした。I cleaned out the fish tank. |
| 絵の具 | paints, colours (えのぐ) | 絵の具を混ぜて緑を作った。I mixed paints to make green. |
| 色彩 | colouring, hue (しきさい) | 南国らしい色彩の絵だ。It's a painting with tropical colouring. |
| 結び目 | a knot (むすびめ) | 結び目が固くてほどけない。The knot is too tight to undo. |
| 明け方 | dawn, daybreak (あけがた) | 明け方に雨が上がった。The rain stopped at dawn. |
| 起床 | getting up, rising (きしょう) | 起床時間は毎朝六時だ。I get up at six every morning. |
| 脇目も振らず | without a sideways glance, single-mindedly (わきめもふらず) | 脇目も振らず走り続けた。He ran on without looking aside. |
| 紐 | a string, a cord (ひも) | 箱を紐で縛った。I tied the box with string. |
| 水平線 | the horizon over the sea (すいへいせん) | 水平線に船が見えた。A ship appeared on the horizon. |
| 胸ぐら | the front of someone's collar (むなぐら) | 胸ぐらを掴まれて驚いた。I was startled to be grabbed by the collar. |
| 潤む | to become moist, to well up (うるむ) | その話に思わず目が潤んだ。My eyes welled up at the story. |
| 青あざ | a bruise (あおあざ) | 転んで膝に青あざができた。I fell and got a bruise on my knee. |
| 舌打ち | a click of the tongue in annoyance (したうち) | 彼は小さく舌打ちした。He clicked his tongue quietly. |
| 腫れ上がる | to swell up (はれあがる) | 虫に刺されて腕が腫れ上がった。My arm swelled up from an insect bite. |
| 抉る | to gouge out, to cut deep (えぐる) | その一言は心を抉った。That remark cut deep. |
| 似顔絵 | a portrait sketch, a likeness (にがおえ) | 公園で似顔絵を描いてもらった。I had my portrait sketched in the park. |
| 大人びる | to seem grown-up (おとなびる) | しばらく見ないうちに大人びたね。You've grown up in the time since I saw you. |
| 鮮明 | vivid, distinct (せんめい) | 当時のことを鮮明に覚えている。I remember that time vividly. |
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