flowers budding; blooming; flowering; showing results; becoming popular; blooming
pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)
any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry
physiological; physical; visceral; instinctive; in one's guts
admission; joining; enrollment; enrolment
attendance; presence; appearance
people (of a country); nation; citizen; national
koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); (arch.) stringed instrument
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
hedge; fence; border; limit
inner part; inside; interior; depths (e.g. of a forest); back (of a house, drawer, etc.); bottom (e.g. of one's heart)
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
traditional women's hair style, with hair worn up and arched back
hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach
hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains
residence; housing; residential building
limits; boundary; domain; area (e.g. in programming languages)
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
you could say; you might say; verging on the
composition; piece of music; tune; melody; enjoyment; fun
exposure; laying bare; baring (e.g. skin); (photographic) exposure
kappa; mythical water-dwelling creature; excellent swimmer; cucumber; cucumber sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed)
performer or player (of an instrument)
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
appendix; supplement; annex; extra (of a newspaper or magazine)
major cleanup; spring cleaning
Okamoto Ippei (1886.6.11-1948.10.11)
hill; height; knoll; rising ground
Western clothing; Western binding
container; receptacle; case; inserting; putting in
chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken; chicken meat
entirely; completely; cleanly; snugly
to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)