combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination
business; things to do; engagement; errand; affairs
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
atelier; studio; workshop
January; first month of the lunar calendar
rakugo story teller; comic story teller
tone of voice; mimicry; imitative voice
performance; trick; feat; extraordinary deed; daring act; bold move
style; way; shape; dress; attire; clothing
no matter how much time passes; no matter how long you wait; (taking) forever
to recall; to remember; to recollect
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work
to thank; to apologize; to apologise; to say farewell; to retreat; to refuse
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
finally; in the end; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
to come to like; to become fond of; to fall in love
so; like this; in this way; this much; to this extent
change of job; change of occupation; career change
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
to turn completely into; to become completely
spoiled; spoilt; ruined; wasted (chance, etc.); messed up; destroyed
drumming on one's belly; having one's fill
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
to mimic someone's voice; to impersonate
tsuzumi; hourglass-shaped Japanese hand drum; drum (general term for struck leather percussion instruments)
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to produce
sound; noise; audio; acoustics; reverberation
middle of the night; dead of night
review (of learned material); revision
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
(sound of an) explosion or detonation; roar (of a machine)
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
noisy; loud; boisterous; turbulent; unsettled; restless