large attendance; full house; capacity audience
success; prosperity; boom
gate money; admission fee
entertainer (esp. in a traditional art); performer; artiste; talented person; accomplished person
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
persistence; single-mindedness
magic (illusion); conjuring; magic trick; conjuring trick; sleight of hand
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
to push aside; to push one's way through
India; cotton sheeting; foreign; imported; ultra-spicy; extra hot
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than
hastily made; improvised preparation
audience; spectator; spectators
for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
what is called; what they call; so-called
dwarf; midget; elf; Issun-bōshi (Japanese fairytale)
surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
jūbako; multi-tiered food box
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
flat; even; level; plain (speech, etc.); simple
being unhuman; being removed from humanity; being unworldly
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
guts; pluck; nerve; spirit
rare; extraordinary; singular
suddenly and in a loud voice (e.g. sobbing)
to be prepared to flee; to become restless; to become agitated
to crowd (a house); to throng to (a door)
ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large
... (years old) this year
stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise; faker; huckster
clap (sound of wooden clappers); chop vigorously; slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting); the end; originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers; dot (esp. typographical)
wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
sliding door (esp. when removed from its frame and used for carrying things or people); large flounder
standing upright; standing straight; standing erect; rising perpendicularly; rising straight up; towering high
to sparkle; to glitter; to twinkle
ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m); counter used to number the gaps between pillars
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
this land; our country; Imperial Court
shuriken; small throwing blade; throwing star
(air) bubble (esp. in a liquid)
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
to pierce through; to stand (of something sharp or pointy); to thrust (up)