stationery store; stationery shop; stationer's
manufacturing plant; production facility
factory; plant; mill; workshop
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, etc. stewed in soy-flavored dashi
tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck
each; respectively; individually; separately
any beech tree of genus Castanopsis; chinquapin; chinkapin
to set up shop; to open a store
place where one works; construction site; working area
to stand (still) a while; to loiter; to stop
to cross (each other); to pass (each other); to miss (meeting) each other; to pass each other by; to have a misunderstanding; to go awry
police box; koban; alternation; alternating (current, stress, etc.)
postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)
catercorner; diagonally opposite
end (of a street, hallway, etc.)
congestion; crush; crowding; confusion; disorder
distant view; looking from a distance; good long distance vision; farsightedness
degree; extent; (health) condition; state of health; adjustment; moderation; addition and subtraction
haste; hurry; expedition; speed; dispatch
olive green; greenish brown
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
half-sitting posture; half-standing posture; half-rising posture; stooping position
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
marriage ceremony; wedding
to pass each other; to cross paths
to walk noisily; to walk loudly
handshake; reconciliation; joining hands; cooperation
to hold out; to extend (e.g. one's hands); to thrust (javelin); to offer (e.g. aid, help, etc.)
to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)
one's circumstances or condition, esp. compared to that of another; coherence (e.g. of a conversation)
and; thereupon; because of that