sincerity; honesty; truth; faithfulness
to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
tailoring; dressmaking; sewing; making; preparation
Alice band; horseshoe-shaped hairband made of metal or plastic (often covered with cloth); Katyusha rocket launcher (Soviet)
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that
jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
inadequacy; inappropriateness; unfitness; impropriety
to offer; to sacrifice; to dedicate
multi-floor building; multi-storey building; tall building
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
agreement (e.g. business, dispute); understanding; compromise; mutual relations (between family members, coworkers, etc.)
holiday house; vacation home; villa; prison; jail
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
change; transition; vicissitudes
ancient times (e.g. Heian and Nara periods in Japan); remote ages; early history; (nominal) retail price
Western Europe; the West; the Occident; Europe
town; city; municipal; urban
tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings
harakiri; seppuku; ritual suicide by disembowelment
lucky omen; happy; auspicious
heavenly nymph; celestial maiden; beautiful and kind woman
to long for; to yearn after; to admire; to be attracted by
to be accompanied by; to be attended by; to take along (someone); to conquer; to subjugate; to subdue
to play (a stringed instrument)
being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria
paper store; paper merchant; paper seller; papermaking; papermaker
from afar; over a great distance; all the way
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
God and man; heaven and man
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
opening (of uncultivated land)
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
restoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
error; mistake; slip; bug