honor; honour; credit; prestige
good thing; strong point; good family; prestigious school; the right moment; utter
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
apathetic; lackadaisical; spiritless; physically weak; feeble; effeminate
(entering into) nirvana; died; silent; tranquil
end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all
resolute; determined; bold
downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
alarm bell; fire bell; warning; wake-up call
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
information; experience; knowledge; observation
impressions; thoughts; feelings; opinions
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
in swarms; in clusters; tediously; slowly
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
general classification; broad categorization
to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
every place; various places
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
to stay behind; to remain; to work overtime
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); stylish; chic; strange; quaint
Western cooking; Western-style meal; Western-style food; Japanized Western cuisine
to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
café; cafe; coffeehouse; hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)
to feel around for; to fumble for; to investigate; to probe into; to explore (parts unknown); to enjoy (natural beauty)