general (variety) store (shop)
to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)
Sichuan (province in China); Shu (kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era; 221-263); Shu Han; Shu (kingdom in ancient China; ??-316 BCE)
Dragon King; promoted rook
vague; ambiguous; noncommittal; off-point
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
transport; transportation; conveyance; carriage
real thing; original; actual
genuine article; real thing; real deal
long ago; a long time ago; already
to be reduced to ashes; to be cremated
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both
Miyagi Prefecture (Tōhoku area)
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
pupil; student; schoolchild
to take a picture; to take a photo
development (of film); photographic processing
to surface; to rise to the surface
photography (still or motion); photographing; filming; shooting; (video) recording
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)
failure; abortive (attempt, action)
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
to put (into); to put away (in); to include (in an anthology, catalogue, etc.); to contain; to achieve (results, success, etc.); to obtain; to accept (a gift or money)
pride; boast; credit (to)
to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
to be impatient for; to wait (anxiously) for; to eagerly look forward to; to long for
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone
basket; basketball; basket cloth
to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing
hill; height; knoll; rising ground
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated