through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)
to turn over; to turn upside down; to knock over; to tip over; to overturn (e.g. a decision); to upset
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
(those) who are; (that) which is; in the capacity of
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
literary criticism; book review
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
or; OR (Boolean operator)
Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); to spare (time, money, etc.)
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
assisted reproductive technologies; ART
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1603-1867)
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
senryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
female office worker; office lady; overlap; orienteering
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader; contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
drama; play; Chinese opera
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
to burn; to kindle; to heat (a bath); to light (a stove); to use (a camera flash)
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
bowstring; string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.); bail (arched pot handle); diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu
tune (melody, piece of music)
a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section