Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
old-fashioned; archaic; antique; antiquated
hereditary custom; surviving tradition; teachings passed down from previous generations
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous; to be absurd
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
emergency; extreme; great; extraordinary
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled
people (of a country); nation; citizen; Democratic Party for the People
everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
tea ceremony; Way of Tea; sadō
beautification; cleaning up; tidiying; glorification; idealization; romanticizing
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
polar regions; the pole; farthest land; ends of the earth
both ends; either end; both edges; double-mindedness; sitting on the fence
imagination; supposition; guess
resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
outward appearance; looks
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
point mass; particle; material point
point in common; common feature
together; jointly; at the same time; with; both
standard; basis; principle
of course; certainly; naturally
degree of heat; temperature; enthusiasm
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to be better (than); to be superior; to surpass; to excel; to be excellent
kouta; traditional ballad accompanied by shamisen
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
high and low; rise and fall